Bible Verses About Catastrophic Events

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.

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.

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.

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;

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

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

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

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

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

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.

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.

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

Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

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;

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

Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

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

And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

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

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

For thus saith the Lord God; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

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.

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.

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

The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

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.

Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:

But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

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

And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

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:

Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;