The Bible has a lot to say about weather. From the Garden of Eden’s “cool breezes” to the parting of the Red Sea, we’ve seen God use the elements in amazing ways. Yet sometimes it seems like our response to weather is less than miraculous. How can we make our own lives more like God’s and bring some of His beauty into even the most mundane aspects of life?
Here are some verses from the Bible that will help you see just how much God cares about the weather!
Bible Verses About Weather
Psalm 148:8 ESV / 131 helpful votes
Fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word!
Jeremiah 10:12-13 ESV / 114 helpful votes
It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens. When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
Leviticus 26:4 ESV / 113 helpful votes
Then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Matthew 16:2-3 ESV / 112 helpful votes
He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.
Nahum 1:3 ESV / 102 helpful votes
The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Matthew 16:3 ESV / 81 helpful votes
And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.
Job 37:9 ESV / 72 helpful votes
From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.
Luke 21:11 ESV / 61 helpful votes
There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Jonah 1:4 ESV / 58 helpful votes
But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.
James 5:17-18 ESV / 55 helpful votes
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.
Isaiah 29:6 ESV / 51 helpful votes
You will be visited by the Lord of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
Psalm 121:1-8 ESV / 41 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. …
Job 37:17 ESV / 38 helpful votes
You whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?
Genesis 8:22 ESV / 38 helpful votes
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
Matthew 16:2 ESV / 37 helpful votes
He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’
Amos 4:7 ESV / 33 helpful votes
“I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
1 Samuel 12:18 ESV / 32 helpful votes
So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
Deuteronomy 28:24 ESV / 32 helpful votes
The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
Matthew 24:7 ESV / 30 helpful votes
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Haggai 1:11 ESV / 29 helpful votes
And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.”
Isaiah 58:11 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
Luke 21:25 ESV / 27 helpful votes
“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,
1 Kings 8:35-36 ESV / 27 helpful votes
“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them, then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
Hosea 13:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.
Job 36:27-28 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For he draws up the drops of water; they distill his mist in rain, which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly.
Mark 4:39-41 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?” And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
Luke 8:23-25 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And as they sailed he fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water and were in danger. And they went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, and there was a calm. He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”
1 Kings 17:1 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”
Joshua 10:11 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than the sons of Israel killed with the sword.
Psalm 107:29 ESV / 20 helpful votes
He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.
2 Samuel 21:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
Mark 4:39 ESV / 18 helpful votes
And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Job 37:1-24 ESV / 18 helpful votes
“At this also my heart trembles and leaps out of its place. Keep listening to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth. Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth. After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard. God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend. …
Isaiah 4:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes
There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.
Job 37:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.
Job 36:32 ESV / 17 helpful votes
He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.
Job 1:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Revelation 16:21 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe.
Matthew 8:26 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
Zechariah 14:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes
On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter.
Jeremiah 10:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes
When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
2 Kings 2:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Ezekiel 38:22 ESV / 15 helpful votes
With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.
Job 5:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes
He gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields;
Luke 21:36 ESV / 14 helpful votes
But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Luke 12:54 ESV / 14 helpful votes
He also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A shower is coming.’ And so it happens.
Matthew 8:26-27 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?”
Ezekiel 13:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Therefore thus says the Lord God: I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a full end.
Acts 14:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”
John 3:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Luke 8:24 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And they went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, and there was a calm.
Zechariah 14:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain on them.
Zechariah 10:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.
Psalm 135:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
Zechariah 9:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Then the Lord will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning; the Lord God will sound the trumpet and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.
Jeremiah 51:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes
When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
Jeremiah 5:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes
They do not say in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.’
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
John 3:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Matthew 5:45 ESV / 10 helpful votes
So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Joel 2:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.
Jeremiah 51:15-16 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens. When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
Psalm 147:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on the hills.
Job 38:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
Genesis 31:40 ESV / 10 helpful votes
There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Acts 28:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The native people showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all, because it had begun to rain and was cold.
Mark 10:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
Isaiah 30:30 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and hailstones.
Isaiah 30:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures,
Ecclesiastes 11:4-5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap. As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
Psalm 19:1-14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. …
Job 37:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
2 Chronicles 7:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,
1 Samuel 12:17-18 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the Lord, that he may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king.” So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Deuteronomy 28:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Acts 27:1-44 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius. And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica. The next day we put in at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him leave to go to his friends and be cared for. And putting out to sea from there we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us. And when we had sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia. …
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
John 18:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves. Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself.
Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. …
Proverbs 25:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Jonah 4:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Hosea 13:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes
It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought;
Proverbs 1:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes
When terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
Exodus 14:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Zechariah 14:16-19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths. And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain on them. And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths. This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
2 Chronicles 6:26-27 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them, then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.
1 Kings 8:35 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,
Deuteronomy 28:23-24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
Numbers 11:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Then a wind from the Lord sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the ground.
Exodus 9:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the Lord, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth.
Genesis 41:30-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land, and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe.
Acts 27:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And when the ship was caught and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.
Psalm 78:47 ESV / 5 helpful votes
He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost.
Psalm 78:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes
He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind;
Psalm 29:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.
Job 1:1-5:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually. …
Deuteronomy 11:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.
