100 Bible Verses about Lightning Storm

Zechariah 9:14 ESV / 9 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.

Psalm 135:7 ESV / 9 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.

Exodus 9:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 10:13 ESV / 8 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.

Psalm 105:32 ESV / 7 helpful votes

He gave them hail for rain, and fiery lightning bolts through their land.

Psalm 77:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

Job 37:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.

Revelation 16:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake.

Revelation 11:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.

Revelation 8:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

Nahum 2:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning.

Jeremiah 51:16 ESV / 6 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.

Psalm 97:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

His lightnings light up the world; the earth sees and trembles.

Job 38:35 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’?

Exodus 9:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

Revelation 4:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God,

Luke 17:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

Psalm 144:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them!

Job 28:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

When he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder,

Exodus 20:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off

Exodus 19:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

Revelation 16:21 ESV / 4 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 24:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Matthew 5:45 ESV / 4 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.

Zechariah 10:1 ESV / 4 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.

Nahum 1:3 ESV / 4 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.

Daniel 10:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.

Ezekiel 38:22 ESV / 4 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.

Ezekiel 1:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the living creatures darted to and fro, like the appearance of a flash of lightning.

Ezekiel 1:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness around it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming metal.

Proverbs 10:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is established forever.

Psalm 148:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word!

Psalm 107:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

Psalm 78:48 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He gave over their cattle to the hail and their flocks to thunderbolts.

Psalm 18:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he sent out his arrows and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.

Job 38:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

Job 37:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

Job 36:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.

Job 26:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

2 Samuel 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he sent out arrows and scattered them; lightning, and routed them.

2 Samuel 22:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Out of the brightness before him coals of fire flamed forth.

Revelation 11:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Revelation 8:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

Hebrews 6:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.

Acts 14:17 ESV / 3 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.”

Luke 10:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Luke 9:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became dazzling white.

Matthew 28:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.

Habakkuk 3:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.

Amos 4:7 ESV / 3 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;

Hosea 6:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.

Ezekiel 21:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! (Or shall we rejoice? You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood.)

Ezekiel 13:13 ESV / 3 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.

Jeremiah 23:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Behold, the storm of the Lord! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.

Jeremiah 14:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.

Isaiah 30:30 ESV / 3 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 29:6 ESV / 3 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.

Proverbs 1:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

Psalm 147:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on the hills.

Psalm 104:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...

Psalm 29:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire.

Psalm 18:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Out of the brightness before him hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.

Job 38:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt,

Job 37:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.

Job 37:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.

Job 37:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.

Job 36:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea.

Job 5:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields;

1 Kings 17:1 ESV / 3 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.”

1 Kings 8:35-36 ESV / 3 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 Samuel 12:17-18 ESV / 3 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.

1 Samuel 7:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to attack Israel. But the Lord thundered with a mighty sound that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion, and they were defeated before Israel.

Joshua 10:11 ESV / 3 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.

Deuteronomy 11:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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.

Deuteronomy 11:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.

Leviticus 26:4 ESV / 3 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.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 11:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.

Revelation 11:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Revelation 8:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

James 5:17 ESV / 2 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.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Romans 8:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Romans 8:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Romans 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 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.

John 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Luke 24:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel.

Luke 12:54 ESV / 2 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.

Mark 4:35-41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” 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. ...

Mark 4:35-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” 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. ...

Matthew 8:26 ESV / 2 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.

Matthew 8:24-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. And they went and woke him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing.” 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 14:17-18 ESV / 2 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. 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.

Zechariah 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate.”

Haggai 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.

Haggai 1:11 ESV / 2 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.”

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