Bible Verses About Disasters And Providence

And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Direct Bible passage from the gospel about earthquakes, famines, and pestilences.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Direct Bible passage from the gospel about famines, pestilences, and earthquakes.

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.

Direct Bible passage on pestilence and famine.

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.

Direct Bible passage on wars, earthquakes, and famines.

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.

Direct Bible judgment passage listing famine, pestilence, and sword.

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?

Direct Bible judgment passage listing sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence.

Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

Direct Bible explanation that disaster comes because of sin.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

Direct Bible judgment statement about disaster after disaster.

Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

Direct Bible statement that the Lord brought disaster because he is righteous.

A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

Judgment verse on famine and pestilence.

Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

Apocalyptic plague image, but not one of the best targeted passages.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

General affliction and deliverance statement.

I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

Says God's judgments afflicted the speaker in faithfulness.

I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Lament over affliction by wrath.

Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

Covenant afflictions and sicknesses, but not directly about early Christian teaching.

Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

Justice in repaying affliction with affliction.

For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

Directly says God does not afflict willingly.

Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

Calamity comes like a storm and whirlwind.

Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.

Disaster pursues sinners.

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Disaster for the workers of iniquity.

And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.

Prophetic prediction of worldwide famine.

And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

God relents from disaster, useful for providence but not central.

That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

Believers are destined for afflictions.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

Contrast with wrath; useful but indirect.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

Fiery trial as testing.

And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.