16 Bible Verses about God Controls Storms

“Do you know how God establishes and commands them,
And makes the lightning of His [storm] cloud shine?

The men wondered in amazement, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”

He hushed the storm to a gentle whisper,
So that the waves of the sea were still.

Who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth;
Who makes lightning for the rain,
Who brings the wind from His storehouses;

Who sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt,
Upon Pharaoh and all his servants.

You rule the swelling of the sea;
When its waves rise, You still them.

But the Lord hurled a great wind toward the sea, and there was a violent tempest on the sea so that the ship was about to break up.

The Lord is slow to anger and great in power
And He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.
The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm,
And the clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

Ask for rain from the Lord at the time of the spring rain.
It is the Lord who makes the thunder clouds;
And He will give them showers of rain, grass in the field to everyone.

So pursue them with Your tempest
And terrify them with [the violence of] Your storm.

The Lord [acknowledged you once as worthy and] called your name,
“A green olive tree, fair and beautiful in fruit and form”;
But with the roar of a great tempest
He has set fire to it,
And its branches are worthless.

“Behold, the tempest of the Lord has gone forth in wrath,
A whirling tempest;
It will whirl and burst on the heads of the wicked.

Behold, the tempest of the Lord!
Wrath has gone forth,
A sweeping and gathering tempest;
It will burst on the head of the wicked.

Who stills the roaring of the seas,
The roaring of their waves,
And the tumult of the peoples,

They came to Jesus and woke Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are about to die!” He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging, violent waves, and they ceased, and it became calm [a perfect peacefulness].

And He got up and [sternly] rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Hush, be still (muzzled)!” And the wind died down [as if it had grown weary] and there was [at once] a great calm [a perfect peacefulness].