Ii Regum 4

1 Mulier autem quædam de uxoribus prophetarum clamabat ad Eliseum, dicens: Servus tuus vir meus mortuus est, et tu nosti quia servus tuus fuit timens Dominum: et ecce creditor venit ut tollat duos filios meos ad serviendum sibi.

Now a wife from among the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be his slaves."

2 Cui dixit Eliseus: Quid vis ut faciam tibi? Dic mihi, quid habes in domo tua? At illa respondit: Non habeo ancilla tua quidquam in domo mea, nisi parum olei, quo ungar.

Then Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" And she said, "Your servant has nothing in the house, except a small jar of oil."

3 Cui ait: Vade, pete mutuo ab omnibus vicinis tuis vasa vacua non pauca.

Then he said, "Go, ask for containers from outside, from all your neighbors, empty containers.

4 Et ingredere, et claude ostium tuum, cum intrinsecus fueris tu, et filii tui: et mitte inde in omnia vasa hæc: et cum plena fuerint, tolles.

Then go in and shut the door behind yourself and your sons and pour into all these containers, and you are to set each one aside when it is full."

5 Ivit itaque mulier, et clausit ostium super se, et super filios suos: illi offerebant vasa, et illa infundebat.

So she left him and shut the door behind herself and her sons; they kept bringing her containers, and she kept pouring.

6 Cumque plena fuissent vasa, dixit ad filium suum: Affer mihi adhuc vas. Et ille respondit: Non habeo. Stetitque oleum.

Now it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, "Bring me another container." But he said to her, "There aren't any more." Then the oil stopped flowing.

7 Venit autem illa, et indicavit homini Dei. Et ille: Vade, inquit, vende oleum, et redde creditori tuo: tu autem, et filii tui vivite de reliquo.

Then she came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest."

8 Facta est autem quædam dies, et transibat Eliseus per Sunam: erat autem ibi mulier magna, quæ tenuit eum ut comederet panem: cumque frequenter inde transiret, divertebat ad eam ut comederet panem.

Now it happened one day that Elisha traveled to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, who urged him to eat some food. so whenever he passed by, he would stop in there to eat some food.

9 Quæ dixit ad virum suum: Animadverto quod vir Dei sanctus est iste, qui transit per nos frequenter.

And she said to her husband, "Look now, I know that this is a holy man of God who often passes by us.

10 Faciamus ergo ei cœnaculum parvum, et ponamus ei in eo lectulum, et mensam, et sellam, et candelabrum, ut cum venerit ad nos, maneat ibi.

Please, let's make a little room on the wall, and let's set up a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him there, so that whenever he comes to us, he can stay there."

11 Facta est ergo dies quædam, et veniens divertit in cœnaculum, et requievit ibi.

Now it happened one day he came there, and he turned into the upper room and rested.

12 Dixitque ad Giezi puerum suum: Voca Sunamitidem istam. Qui cum vocasset eam, et illa stetisset coram eo,

And he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." So he called for her and she stood before him.

13 dixit ad puerum suum: Loquere ad eam: Ecce, sedule in omnibus ministrasti nobis, quid vis ut faciam tibi? Numquid habes negotium, et vis ut loquar regi, sive principi militiæ? Quæ respondit: In medio populi mei habito.

And he said to him, "Say now to her, 'Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can I do for you? Can I put in a good word for you to the king, or to the commander of the army?'" She answered, "I have a home among my own people."

14 Et ait: Quid ergo vult ut faciam ei? Dixitque Giezi: Ne quæras: filium enim non habet, et vir eius senex est.

So he said, "What then can I do for her?" And Gehazi replied, "Actually, she has no son, and her husband is old."

15 Præcepit itaque ut vocaret eam: quæ cum vocata fuisset, et stetisset ante ostium,

Then he said, "Call her." And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.

16 dixit ad eam: In tempore isto, et in hac eadem hora, si vita comes fuerit, habebis in utero filium. At illa respondit: Noli quæso, domine mi, vir Dei, noli mentiri ancillæ tuæ.

And he said, "At this season, when the time comes around, you will be holding a son." And she said, "No, my lord, man of God, do not lie to your servant."

17 Et concepit mulier, et peperit filium in tempore, et in hora eadem, qua dixerat Eliseus.

But the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, just as Elisha had said to her.

18 Crevit autem puer. Et cum esset quædam dies, et egressus isset ad patrem suum, ad messores,

And the child grew and it happened one day that he went out to his father to the harvest workers.

19 ait patri suo: Caput meum doleo, caput meum doleo. At ille dixit puero: Tolle, et duc eum ad matrem suam.

And he said to his father, "My head, my head." And he said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."

20 Qui cum tulisset, et duxisset eum ad matrem suam, posuit eum illa super genua sua usque ad meridiem, et mortuus est.

And when he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and died.

21 Ascendit autem, et collocavit eum super lectulum hominis Dei, et clausit ostium: et egressa,

Then she went up and put him on the bed of the man of God and shut the door behind him and left.

22 vocavit virum suum, et ait: Mitte mecum, obsecro, unum de pueris, et asinam, ut excurram usque ad hominem Dei, et revertar.

Then she called to her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and then return."

23 Qui ait illi: Quam ob causam vadis ad eum? Hodie non sunt Calendæ, neque Sabbatum. Quæ respondit: Vadam:

But he said, "Why would you want to see him today? It is not the new moon or Sabbath." And she said, "It's alright."

24 Stravitque asinam, et præcepit puero: Mina, et propera, ne mihi moram facias in eundo: et hoc age quod præcipio tibi.

Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, "Lead on; do not slow down for me unless I tell you."

25 Profecta est igitur, et venit ad virum Dei in montem Carmeli: cumque vidisset eam vir Dei econtra, ait ad Giezi puerum suum: Ecce Sunamitis illa.

So she went and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. So it happened when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, "Look, there is the Shunammite.

26 Vade ergo in occursum eius, et dic ei: Recte ne agitur circa te, et circa virum tuum, et circa filium tuum? Quæ respondit: Recte.

Please run now to meet her and ask her, 'Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?'" And she answered, "It is well."

27 Cumque venisset ad virum Dei in montem, apprehendit pedes eius: et accessit Giezi ut amoveret eam. Et ait homo Dei: Dimitte illam: anima enim eius in amaritudine est, et Dominus celavit a me, et non indicavit mihi.

But when she came to the man of God to the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone, for she is in severe anguish, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me."

28 Quæ dixit illi: Numquid petivi filium a domino meo? Numquid non dixi tibi: Ne illudas me?

Then she said, "Did I ask a son from my lord? Did I not say, 'Do not mislead me?'"

29 Et ille ait ad Giezi: Accinge lumbos tuos, et tolle baculum meum in manu tua, et vade. Si occurrerit tibi homo, non salutes eum: et si salutaverit te quispiam, non respondeas illi: et pones baculum meum super faciem pueri.

Then he said to Gehazi, "Tuck your cloak into your belt, and take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not reply. And lay my staff on the face of the child."

30 Porro mater pueri ait: Vivit Dominus, et vivit anima tua, non dimittam te. Surrexit ergo, et secutus est eam.

But the mother of the child said, "As the LORD lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So he arose and followed her.

31 Giezi autem præcesserat ante eos, et posuerat baculum super faciem pueri, et non erat vox, neque sensus: reversusque est in occursum eius, et nunciavit ei, dicens: Non surrexit puer.

Now Gehazi went on ahead of them and placed the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound or response. Therefore he came back to meet him and told him, saying, "The child did not wake up."

32 Ingressus est ergo Eliseus domum, et ecce puer mortuus iacebat in lectulo eius:

When Elisha arrived at the house, look, the child was dead, lying on his bed.

33 ingressusque clausit ostium super se, et super puerum: et oravit ad Dominum.

So he went in and shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the LORD.

34 Et ascendit, et incubuit super puerum: posuitque os suum super os eius, et oculos suos super oculos eius, et manus suas super manus eius: et incurvavit se super eum, et calefacta est caro pueri.

Then he got up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands, and he stretched himself upon him, and the body of the child grew warm.

35 At ille reversus, deambulavit in domo, semel huc atque illuc: et ascendit, et incubuit super eum: et oscitavit puer septies, aperuitque oculos.

Then he returned and walked in the house once back and forth, and went up and stretched himself upon him, and the child sneezed seven times and the child opened his eyes.

36 At ille vocavit Giezi, et dixit ei: Voca Sunamitidem hanc. Quæ vocata, ingressa est ad eum. Qui ait: Tolle filium tuum.

Then he called to Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite." So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, "Pick up your son."

37 Venit illa, et corruit ad pedes eius, et adoravit super terram: tulitque filium suum, et egressa est,

Then she came in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground. Then she picked up her son and left.

38 et Eliseus reversus est in Galgala. Erat autem fames in terra, et filii prophetarum habitabant coram eo. Dixitque uni de pueris suis: Pone ollam grandem, et coque pulmentum filiis prophetarum.

Now Elisha came again to Gilgal, while there was a famine in the land. And the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, and he said to his servant, "Put on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets."

39 Et egressus est unus in agrum ut colligeret herbas agrestes: invenitque quasi vitem silvestrem, et collegit ex ea colocynthidas agri, et implevit pallium suum, et reversus concidit in ollam pulmenti: nesciebat enim quid esset.

Then one of them went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine, and gathered as many of its gourds as his garment would hold, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, for he was unaware what it was.

40 Infuderunt ergo sociis, ut comederent: cumque gustassent de coctione, clamaverunt, dicentes: Mors in olla vir Dei. Et non potuerunt comedere.

So they poured out for the men to eat. Now it happened, as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out, and said, "Man of God, there is death in the pot." And they could not eat it.

41 At ille, Afferte, inquit, farinam. Cumque tulissent, misit in ollam, et ait: Infunde turbæ, ut comedant. Et non fuit amplius quidquam amaritudinis in olla.

But he said, "Bring some flour." And he threw it into the pot and said, "Pour it out for the people, that they may eat." And there was no harm in the pot.

42 Vir autem quidam venit de Baalsalisa deferens viro Dei panes primitiarum, viginti panes hordeaceos, et frumentum novum in pera sua. At ille dixit: Da populo, ut comedat.

Now a man from Baal Shalishah came and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And he said, "Give to the people, that they may eat."

43 Responditque ei minister eius: Quantum est hoc, ut apponam centum viris? Rursum ille ait: Da populo, ut comedat: hæc enim dicit Dominus: Comedent, et supererit.

But his servant said, "What, should I set this before a hundred men?" So he said, "Give them to the people so that they may eat, for thus says the LORD, 'They will eat, and will have some left over.'"

44 Posuit itaque coram eis: qui comederunt, et superfuit iuxta verbum Domini.

So he set it before them, and they ate, and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.