Eliyyahu said to Ah’ab, ‘Go up, eat and drink, because there’s a rumbling sound of rain.’ Ah’ab went up to eat and to drink, while Eliyyahu went up to the top of Carmel, crouched to the ground and put his face between his knees. He said to his boy, ‘Please go up and look in the direction of the sea.’ He went up and looked and said, ‘There isn’t anything.’ He said ‘Go back’, seven times. On the seventh he said, ‘There, a small cloud, like a person’s fist, going up from the west.’ He said, ‘Go up, say to Ah’ab, “Hitch up, and get down, so that the rain won’t hold you back.”’ Right then, right then, when the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, there was a great downpour. Ah’ab got into his chariot and went to Yizre’e’l. Yahweh’s hand came on Eliyyahu, he hitched things round his hips, and he ran before Ah’ab as far as when you come to Yizre’e’l.
Goldingay, John The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art –
Thou my best thought, by day or by night;
Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.