Bible Verses about “lack of rain”
The Bible contains 26 verses about lack of rain across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
“Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.”
“These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.”
“He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.”
“Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.”
“It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn't go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no rain.”
“I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;”
“"If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;”
“"I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn't rain withered.”
“and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.”
“I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings forth, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands."”
“Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."”
“Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.”
“Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.”
“The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.”
“I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."”
“"When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:”
“The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.”
“Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.”
“Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.”
“Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass.”
“and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.”
“"When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:”
“then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.”
“Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.”
“then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.”