Quotes about Catastrophe
The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.
— Exodus 7:21
through which the world of that time perished in the flood.
— 2 Peter 3:6
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
— Anonymous
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
— Genesis 7:11
And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
— Genesis 7:10
In the vast catastrophe of the European war our emotions had to be broken up for us, and put at an angle from us, before we could allow ourselves to feel them in poetry or fiction.
— Virginia Woolf
And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
— Genesis 7:23
The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.
— Isaiah 24:19
The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
— Deuteronomy 28:24
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
— Genesis 19:29
When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast; it beat down every plant of the field and stripped every tree.
— Exodus 9:25