Bible Verses About Pestilence
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for pestilence, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 19,462 votes, led by Psalms 91:1-16. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Pestilence
Psalms 91:1-16564 votes
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Luke 21:11529 votes
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Kings 8:37411 votes
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;
Exodus 5:3405 votes
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
Leviticus 26:25402 votes
And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Exodus 9:15399 votes
For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
Habakkuk 3:5398 votes
Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
Ezekiel 5:17395 votes
So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it.
Numbers 14:12367 votes
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Psalms 91:6357 votes
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Ezekiel 14:21354 votes
For thus saith the Lord God; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
Amos 4:10351 votes
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 24:10346 votes
And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
Matthew 24:7345 votes
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Jeremiah 42:17333 votes
So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
Ezekiel 7:15324 votes
The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Psalms 91:3313 votes
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Jeremiah 42:22306 votes
Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.
Jeremiah 28:8305 votes
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
2 Chronicles 20:9303 votes
If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
2 Chronicles 7:13302 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;
Jeremiah 27:13302 votes
Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jeremiah 32:36299 votes
And now therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;
Deuteronomy 28:21297 votes
The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
Jeremiah 44:13296 votes
For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:
What does the Bible say about pestilence?
Readers most often cite Psalms 91:1-16 on the subject of pestilence. Across 19,462 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Luke 21:11, 1 Kings 8:37, Exodus 5:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.