45 Bible Verses about Floods

For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.

For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.

This is what the Lord has said: See, waters are coming up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, overflowing the land and everything in it, the town and those who are living in it; and men will give a cry, and all the people of the land will be crying out in pain.

And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;

And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.

There will be great earth-shocks and outbursts of disease in a number of places, and men will be without food; and there will be wonders and great signs from heaven.

And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.

For the Lord says, See, I will make her peace like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and she will take her children in her arms, gently caring for them on her knees.

They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.

And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.

And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.

Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark,

And that the world which then was came to an end through the overflowing of the waters.

They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.

And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.

For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear;

Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.

The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.

For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring.

But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.

And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,

And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers?

And the snake sent out of his mouth after the woman a river of water, so that she might be taken away by the stream.

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters

But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;

And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock.

Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.

When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.

For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

For this reason, the Lord has said: I will have it broken in two by a storm-wind in my passion; and there will be an overflowing shower in my wrath, and you, O ice-drops, will come raining angrily down.

And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.

The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.

And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;