47 Bible Verses about Weather, God's Sovereignty Over

When he gave the wind its force and measured the water in the sea, when he made rules for the rain and set paths for the thunderstorms, then he saw it and announced it. He confirmed it and examined it.

He said to them: Why are you afraid, you of little faith? Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea. Suddenly there was a great calm. The disciples were in awe. They asked: What kind of man is this, for even the winds and the sea obey him?

He awoke from sleep and commanded the wind and sea. He commanded the sea to be at peace and rest. And he commanded the wind to go down and there was a great calm. He said: Why are you full of fear? Do you have no faith? Their fear was great. They said to themselves: Who is this, that even the wind and the sea obey his orders?

They awoke him saying: Master, Master, we parish! He rebuked the wind and the raging of the water and there was calm. He asked them, Were is your faith? They were afraid and they marveled. They asked: Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?

He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.

He wraps up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not burst by them. He covers the face of the full moon, and spreads his cloud over it.

The storm makes my heart beat wildly. Listen! All of you listen to the voice of God, to the thunder that comes from his mouth. He sends the lightning across the sky to the ends of the earth.read more.
He thunders with the roar of his voice! It is like the majestic sound of thunder, and all the while the lightning flashes. At God's command amazing things happen, wonderful things that we cannot understand. He says to the snow: 'Fall on the earth.' He says to the rain: 'Be strong.' He seals the hand of every man and all men may know His work. Then the beast goes into its lair. It remains in its den. Out of the south come the storm, and out of the north the cold. Ice is made from the breath of God. It freezes the expanse of the waters. He loads the thick cloud with moisture and disperses with lighting. They swirl about on the face of the inhabited earth. They do whatever God commands. He causes it to happen for correction, for his land and for his loving kindness. Listen to this, O Job, Stand and consider the wonders of God. Do you know how God establishes them? Do you know how he makes the lightning? Do you know about the layers of thick clouds, the wonders of one perfect in knowledge? You whose garments are hot, when the land is still because of the south wind? Have you, like him, spread out the skies, strong as a cast metal mirror?

He causes the vapors to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain. He brings wind out of his storehouses.

He covers the sky with clouds. He provides rain for the ground. He makes grass grow on the mountains.

Praise him lightning and hail, snow and fog, strong winds that obey his commands.

He speaks, and the water in the sky produces a storm. He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning flash with the rain. He brings wind out of his storehouses.

In wisdom Jehovah founded the earth. In understanding he established the heavens. By his knowledge the depths are broken up and the clouds drop down the dew.

The wind blows where it will. You hear the sound of it. Yet you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. It is like this with every one who is born from the Spirit.

How great is God! He is beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out. He draws up drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams. The clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind.read more.
Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion? See how he scatters his lightning, bathing the depths of the sea. This is the way he governs the nations and provides food in abundance. He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark. His thunder announces the coming storm. Even the cattle make known its approach.

Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail? These I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle. What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?read more.
Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm? Who waters a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it? Who satisfies a desolate wasteland to make it sprout with grass? Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew? From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?

I will send you rain at the proper time. Then the land will produce crops and the trees will bear fruit.

The land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you came. You used to sow your seed and irrigate it with your foot as in a vegetable garden. But the land you go to possess is a land of hills and valleys. It drinks water from the rain from the clouds in the sky. Jehovah your God cares about this land. Jehovah watches over it day after day and year by year.read more.
If you faithfully obey my commandments that I give you today, love Jehovah your God, and serve him with all your heart and with all your being, I will send rain on your land at the proper time, both in the fall and in the spring. You will gather your own grain, new wine, and olive oil. I will provide grass in the fields for your animals. You will be able to eat and be filled.

Jehovah will open for you his good storehouse. The skies will give rain to your land in due season. It will bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

They do not say in their hearts, to themselves: 'We should respect Jehovah our God. He sends rain at the right time, the autumn rain and the spring rain. He makes sure that we have harvest seasons.'

Let us get to know Jehovah! Let us press on (run after) (follow) to get to know him. As surely as the sun rises he will appear. He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.

You will then act as true children of your Father in heaven. He gives sunlight to both evil and good people. He sends rain for the just and the unjust.

He has not left himself without witness. For he did good and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant with you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the long lasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.

Blessed of Jehovah is his land. Bless it with the dew from heaven above and with the deep waters lying below. Bless with the choice yield of the sun, and with the bounty produced each month.

O God, when you went before your people, when you march through the wilderness, The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: Sinai was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel. You, O God, did send a plentiful rain. You confirm your inheritance with it, when it was parched.

Jehovah will give you rain for the seed that you plant in the ground, and the food that the ground provides will be rich and nourishing. When that day comes, your cattle will graze in large pastures.

They will never be hungry or thirsty. The sun and the burning hot wind will not strike them. The one who has compassion on them will lead them and guide them to springs.

Be glad you children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God! For he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes it to rain, the early rain and the latter rain, in the first month.

In the spring ask Jehovah for rain. It is Jehovah who makes storm clouds and lightning. He will give showers of rain for the vegetation in the field.

Jehovah sent out a great windstorm upon the sea and the ship was about to break up.

Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. Jehovah swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land. The waters were divided.

Jehovah sent a wind from the sea that brought quails and dropped them all around the camp. There were quails on the ground about three feet deep as far as you could walk in a day in any direction.

He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens and by his power he directed the south wind.

When the sun rose God prepared a sultry (burning hot) east wind. So the sun beat upon the head of Jonah and he grew faint. He requested for himself that he might die. He said: It is better for me to die than to live!

Elijah was a man of like passions with us. He prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. He prayed again; and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

It is the dry season and the wheat harvest. I will pray and Jehovah will send thunder and rain. When this happens, you will realize that you committed a great sin against Jehovah when you asked him for a king. Samuel prayed. That same day Jehovah sent thunder and rain. Then all the people became afraid of Jehovah and of Samuel.

When you hold back the rain because your people have sinned against you. And when they repent in this Temple, humbly praying to you, listen to them in heaven. Forgive the sins of the king and of the people of Israel, and teach them to do what is right. Then, O Jehovah, send rain on this land of yours, which you gave to your people as a permanent possession.

When the sky is shut and there is no rain because they are sinning against you and they pray toward this place, praise your name, and turn away from their sin because you made them suffer, then hear them in heaven. Forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the proper way to live. Then send rain on the land, which you gave to your people as an inheritance.

Then Elijah said to Ahab: Get up and take food and drink, for there is a sound of much rain. So Ahab went up to have food and drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel. He bowed down to the earth and put his face between his knees. He told his servant to look in the direction of the sea. After he looked the servant said: There is nothing. Elijah said: Go again seven times. So he went seven times.read more.
The seventh time he said: I see a cloud coming up out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. Then Elijah said: Go up and say to Ahab, Get your carriage ready and go down or the rain will keep you back.

Many times I suffered from the heat during the day and from the cold at night. I was not able to sleep.

The natives there were very friendly to us. It started to rain and was cold, so they built a fire and made us all welcome.

Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin came together to Jerusalem before three days were past. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people were seated in the wide square in front of the house of God. They shook with fear because of this business of this business and because of the great rain.

Before he finished speaking, another servant came and said: Lightning struck the sheep and the shepherds and killed them all. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.

They said: 'The last ones have done only one hour's work. You have made them equal to us. We have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.'

It was cold. So the servants and officers warmed themselves by the fire. Peter also stood by the fire to get warm.

It hit the ship and it was impossible to keep the ship headed into the wind. We gave up trying and let it be carried along by the wind.