1 Kings 17:4
Good News Translation
The brook will supply you with water to drink, and I have commanded ravens to bring you food there."

New Revised Standard Version
You shall drink from the wadi, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

Contemporary English Version
You can drink water from the creek, and eat the food I've told the ravens to bring you."

New American Bible
You shall drink of the wadi, and I have commanded ravens to feed you there.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

I have commanded

1 Kings 17:9 Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee.

1 Kings 19:5-8 And he cast himself down, and slept in the shadow of the juniper tree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him: Arise and eat. . . .

Numbers 20:8 Take the rod, and assemble the people together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak to the rock before them, and it shall yield waters. And when thou hast brought forth water out of the rock, all the multitude and their cattle shall drink.

Job 34:29 For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn? When he hideth his countenance, who is there that can behold him, whether it regard nations, or all men?

Job 38:8-13,41 Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb: . . .

Psalm 33:8,9 Let all the earth fear the Lord, and let all the inhabitants of the world be in awe of him. . . .

Psalm 147:9 Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.

Amos 9:3,4 Though they go down even to hell, thence shall my hand bring them out: and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. . . .

Matthew 4:4,11 Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God. . . .

Context
The Ravens Feed Elijah
3Get thee hence, and go towards the east, and hide thyself by the torrent of Carith, which is over against the Jordan; 4And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.5So he went, and did according to the word of the Lord: and going, he dwelt by the torrent Carith, which is over against the Jordan.…
Cross References
1 Kings 17:3
Get thee hence, and go towards the east, and hide thyself by the torrent of Carith, which is over against the Jordan;

1 Kings 17:5
So he went, and did according to the word of the Lord: and going, he dwelt by the torrent Carith, which is over against the Jordan.

1 Kings 17:9
Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee.

1 Kings 17:3
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