Bible Verses About Drought

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

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

And then the Lord’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you.

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

For thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.

For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.