Bible Verses About Natural Disasters
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for natural disasters, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,948 votes, led by Mark 13:7-9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Natural Disasters
Mark 13:7-9419 votes
And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
Isaiah 45:7343 votes
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Matthew 24:7289 votes
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Luke 21:11273 votes
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Luke 13:1-5172 votes
There were present at that season some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
Luke 21:25164 votes
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;
2 Chronicles 7:13-14158 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;
Romans 12:12145 votes
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
2 Corinthians 5:1145 votes
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
John 16:33126 votes
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Isaiah 54:11124 votes
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Psalms 18:6-7108 votes
In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
Romans 8:2888 votes
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Job 1:8-2287 votes
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Revelation 16:1882 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.
Romans 8:19-2178 votes
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Isaiah 54:1075 votes
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
Isaiah 29:673 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.
Genesis 6:1771 votes
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
Zephaniah 1:2-365 votes
I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the Lord.
Revelation 11:1961 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.
Haggai 1:960 votes
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Genesis 6:6-759 votes
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Revelation 11:1358 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 24:1-5153 votes
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
What does the Bible say about natural disasters?
Readers most often cite Mark 13:7-9 on the subject of natural disasters. Across 5,948 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Isaiah 45:7, Matthew 24:7, Luke 21:11. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.