50 Bible Verses about Floods
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Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.
May the flood of water not overflow me
Nor the deep swallow me up,
Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.
Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found;
Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him.
Thus says the Lord:
“Behold, waters are going to rise from the north
And become an overflowing torrent,
And overflow the land and all its fullness,
The city and those who live in it;
And the men will cry out,
And every inhabitant of the land will wail.
and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Let the rivers clap their hands,
Let the mountains sing together for joy
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
“For this is like the days of Noah to Me,
When I swore that the waters of Noah
Would not flood the earth again;
So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you
Nor will I rebuke you.
and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
For thus says the Lord, “Behold, I extend peace to her like a river,
And the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
And you will be nursed, you will be carried on the hip and fondled on the knees.
They have surrounded me like water all day long;
They have encompassed me altogether.
I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;
The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice,
The floods lift up their pounding waves.
For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.
“For the waves of death encompassed me;
The torrents of destruction overwhelmed me;
“Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up;
And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.
You made men ride over our heads;
We went through fire and through water,
Yet You brought us out into a place of abundance.
The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
‘For I will pour out water on the thirsty land
And streams on the dry ground;
I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring
And My blessing on your descendants;
But with an overflowing flood
He will make a complete end of its site,
And will pursue His enemies into darkness.
and he sent out a raven, and it flew here and there until the water was dried up from the earth.
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Then the waters would have engulfed us,
The stream would have swept over our soul;
Who is this that rises like the Nile,
Like the rivers whose waters surge about?
And the serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause her to be swept away with the flood.
Now these are the records of the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.
For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,
And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.
For the choir director; according to Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.
Save me, O God,
For the waters have threatened my life.
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And through the rivers, they will not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched,
Nor will the flame burn you.
The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “I will make a violent wind break out in My wrath. There will also be in My anger a flooding rain and hailstones to consume it in wrath.
The dove came to him toward evening, and behold, in her beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth.
These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;
