God Causes Wind
Bible Verses about God’s Sovereignty over Wind
General Beliefs Recorded in Scripture
Job
JOB 1:19,21
“and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you… And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.””
Job’s 10 children were tragically killed in a windstorm. He attributed this and other tragic events to the hand of a just God.
JOB 26:12
“By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.”
JOB 37:9
“From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.”
PSALMS 135:7
“He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.”
PSALMS 147:15-18
“He sends out his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly. He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes. He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold? He sends out his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow and the waters flow.”
PSALMS 148:7-8
“Praise the Lord from the earth, you great sea creatures and all deeps, fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word!”
JEREMIAH 51:16
“When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.”
Specific Illustrations Of this Truth in God’s Word
GENESIS 8:1
“But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.”
EXODUS 10:13
“So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.”
See Also: Psalm 105:34
EXODUS 10:19
“And the Lord turned the wind into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.”
EXODUS 14:21-22
see also Exodus 15:8
“Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.”
EXODUS 15:10
see also Exodus 14:26-31, Exodus 15:19
“You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.”
NUMBERS 11:31
“Then a wind from the Lord sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the ground.
HOSEA 13:15
“Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.”
JONAH 1:4
“But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.
NAHUM 1:3
“The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.”
MATTHEW 8:26-27
“And he said to them, ‘Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?’ Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. 27 And the men marveled, saying, ‘What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?’ ”
MATTHEW 14:30-32
“But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, ‘Lord, save me.’ … Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him,… And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.”
Read more: Matthew 14:24-32
MARK 4:39-32
“And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. He said to them, ‘Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?’ And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’”
LUKE 8:24
“And they went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, and there was a calm.”
