pestilence

The 18 most-voted verses about pestilence, from 11 books, ranked by the OpenBible.info community.

There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

Luke 21:11 (BSB)

And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Luke 21:11 (KJV)

There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

Luke 21:11 (WEB)

“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”

Exodus 5:3 (BSB)

And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

Exodus 5:3 (KJV)

They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.”

Exodus 5:3 (WEB)

For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.

Exodus 9:15 (BSB)

For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

Exodus 9:15 (KJV)

For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;

Exodus 9:15 (WEB)

And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Leviticus 26:25 (BSB)

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of [my] covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Leviticus 26:25 (KJV)

I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Leviticus 26:25 (WEB)

I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”

Numbers 14:12 (BSB)

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

Numbers 14:12 (KJV)

I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

Numbers 14:12 (WEB)

When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

1 Kings 8:37 (BSB)

¶ If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, [or] if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness [there be;]

1 Kings 8:37 (KJV)

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,

1 Kings 8:37 (WEB)

Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.

Psalm 91:3 (BSB)

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, [and] from the noisome pestilence.

Psalm 91:3 (KJV)

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

Psalm 91:3 (WEB)

nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.

Psalm 91:6 (BSB)

[Nor] for the pestilence [that] walketh in darkness; [nor] for the destruction [that] wasteth at noonday.

Psalm 91:6 (KJV)

nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

Psalm 91:6 (WEB)

And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”

Jeremiah 24:10 (BSB)

And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

Jeremiah 24:10 (KJV)

I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’”

Jeremiah 24:10 (WEB)

The prophets of old who preceded you and me prophesied war, disaster, and plague against many lands and great kingdoms.

Jeremiah 28:8 (BSB)

The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

Jeremiah 28:8 (KJV)

The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, of evil, and of pestilence.

Jeremiah 28:8 (WEB)

So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’

Jeremiah 42:17 (BSB)

So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

Jeremiah 42:17 (KJV)

So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. None of them will remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.’

Jeremiah 42:17 (WEB)

Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”

Jeremiah 42:22 (BSB)

Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go [and] to sojourn.

Jeremiah 42:22 (KJV)

Now therefore know certainly that you will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.”

Jeremiah 42:22 (WEB)

I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

Ezekiel 5:17 (BSB)

So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken [it].

Ezekiel 5:17 (KJV)

I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, the LORD, have spoken it.’”

Ezekiel 5:17 (WEB)

The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.

Ezekiel 7:15 (BSB)

The sword [is] without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that [is] in the field shall die with the sword; and he that [is] in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

Ezekiel 7:15 (KJV)

“‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field will die by the sword. He who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence.

Ezekiel 7:15 (WEB)

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?

Ezekiel 14:21 (BSB)

For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

Ezekiel 14:21 (KJV)

For the Lord GOD says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence—to cut off from it man and animal!

Ezekiel 14:21 (WEB)

“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Amos 4:10 (BSB)

I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Amos 4:10 (KJV)

“I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD.

Amos 4:10 (WEB)

Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.

Habakkuk 3:5 (BSB)

Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

Habakkuk 3:5 (KJV)

Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.

Habakkuk 3:5 (WEB)

Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Matthew 24:7 (BSB)

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Matthew 24:7 (KJV)

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.

Matthew 24:7 (WEB)

18 verses, from 11 books: