natural disasters
What does the Bible say about natural disasters? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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7But when you will have heard of wars and rumors of wars, you should not be afraid. For these things must be, but the end is not so soon. 8For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom over kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are but the beginning of the sorrows. 9But see to yourselves. For they will hand you over to councils, and in the synagogues you will be beaten, and you shall stand before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony for them.
7I form the light and create the darkness. I make peace and create disaster. I, the Lord, do all these things.
7For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in places.
11And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and pestilences, and famines, and terrors from heaven; and there will be great signs.
1And there were present, at that very time, some who were reporting about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate mixed with their sacrifices. 2And responding, he said to them: “Do you think that these Galileans must have sinned more than all other Galileans, because they suffered so much? 3No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you will all perish similarly. 4And those eighteen upon whom the tower of Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they also were greater transgressors than all the men living in Jerusalem? 5No, I tell you. But if you do not repent, you will all perish similarly.”
25And there will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars. And there will be, on earth, distress among the Gentiles, out of confusion at the roaring of the sea and of the waves:
13If I close up heaven, so that no rain will fall, or if I order and instruct the locust to devour the land, or if I send a pestilence among my people, 14and if my people, over whom my name has been invoked, being converted, will have petitioned me and sought my face, and will have done penance for their wicked ways, then I will heed them from heaven, and I will forgive their sins, and I will heal their land.
1For we know that, when our earthly house of this habitation is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.
12in hope, rejoicing; in tribulation, enduring; in prayer, ever-willing;
33These things I have spoken to you, so that you may have peace in me. In the world, you will have difficulties. But have confidence: I have overcome the world.”
11O poor little ones, convulsed by the tempest, away from any consolation! Behold, I will set your stones in order, and I will lay your foundation with sapphires,
7In my tribulation, I called upon the Lord, and I cried out to my God. And he listened to my voice from his holy temple. And my cry in his presence entered into his ears. 8The earth was shaken, and it trembled. The foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and they were shaken, because he was angry with them.