Bible Verses About Natural Disasters
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And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Scripture Passages
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
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.
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.
Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover 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;
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 nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
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;
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
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.
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
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;
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
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;
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Menβs 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.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
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.
He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
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 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.
Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
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 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.
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
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.
Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
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