Bible Verses About Lack of Rain
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for lack of rain, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,691 votes, led by 1 Kings 17:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Lack of Rain
1 Kings 17:1168 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.
Deuteronomy 11:17157 votes
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.
Amos 4:7144 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.
Zechariah 14:17136 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.
James 5:17-18132 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.
Jeremiah 14:1-6119 votes
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
Leviticus 26:1980 votes
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
Jeremiah 3:364 votes
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
Haggai 1:10-1164 votes
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
Haggai 1:1156 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.
Leviticus 26:19-2055 votes
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
2 Chronicles 7:1355 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;
2 Chronicles 6:26-2754 votes
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;
2 Chronicles 7:13-1450 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;
Isaiah 5:648 votes
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.
Deuteronomy 28:2444 votes
The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
1 Kings 8:35-3642 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:
1 Kings 8:3539 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:
Revelation 11:636 votes
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
Deuteronomy 28:23-2428 votes
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
2 Chronicles 6:2618 votes
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;
Joel 1:17-2016 votes
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Haggai 1:1016 votes
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
Jeremiah 5:24-2512 votes
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.
Jeremiah 5:2412 votes
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.
What does the Bible say about lack of rain?
Readers most often cite 1 Kings 17:1 on the subject of lack of rain. Across 1,691 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Deuteronomy 11:17, Amos 4:7, Zechariah 14:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.