Bible Verses About Drought
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for drought, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 457 votes, led by Amos 4:7. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Drought
Amos 4:771 votes
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.
Jeremiah 17:7-866 votes
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
2 Chronicles 7:13-1459 votes
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;
1 Kings 17:140 votes
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Haggai 1:1127 votes
And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
Isaiah 35:722 votes
And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Haggai 1:8-1121 votes
Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.
Leviticus 26:1919 votes
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
Isaiah 44:317 votes
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:
1 Kings 8:3516 votes
When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:
Zechariah 14:1716 votes
And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
Genesis 41:53-5414 votes
And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
Matthew 5:4513 votes
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 24:713 votes
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Isaiah 19:5-712 votes
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
2 Thessalonians 1:1-1211 votes
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Chronicles 7:1310 votes
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;
James 5:1710 votes
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
What does the Bible say about drought?
Readers most often cite Amos 4:7 on the subject of drought. Across 457 votes, 18 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Jeremiah 17:7-8, 2 Chronicles 7:13-14, 1 Kings 17:1. This page lists all 18 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.