Bible Verses About Earthquakes
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for earthquakes, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 6,525 votes, led by Luke 21:11. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Earthquakes
Luke 21:11524 votes
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Revelation 11:13437 votes
And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Matthew 24:7426 votes
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Mark 13:8417 votes
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.
Acts 16:26306 votes
And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.
Revelation 16:18234 votes
And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
Matthew 28:2218 votes
And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
Isaiah 29:6208 votes
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.
2 Timothy 3:1-5181 votes
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Zechariah 14:5178 votes
And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
Revelation 6:12170 votes
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Haggai 2:6164 votes
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;
Psalms 60:2157 votes
Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
Hebrews 12:26156 votes
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Revelation 8:5146 votes
And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
Revelation 6:12-14124 votes
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Amos 1:1115 votes
The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Isaiah 24:19110 votes
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
Matthew 27:51110 votes
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;
Job 9:5-689 votes
Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
Psalms 46:288 votes
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
Ezekiel 38:1986 votes
For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
Revelation 11:1982 votes
And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
Matthew 24:4479 votes
Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Isaiah 13:1378 votes
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.
What does the Bible say about earthquakes?
Readers most often cite Luke 21:11 on the subject of earthquakes. Across 6,525 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Revelation 11:13, Matthew 24:7, Mark 13:8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.