Bible Verses About Catastrophe

And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.

Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.

Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger.

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.

So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it.

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord God;)

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?