Genesis 7:11
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11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.(A)
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Genesis 8:2
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2 the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,(A)
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Malachi 3:10
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10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house, and thus put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts; see if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing.(A)
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Amos 9:5-6
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5 The Lord, God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and it melts,
and all who live in it mourn,
and all of it rises like the Nile
and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt,(A)
6 who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
and founds his vault upon the earth,
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
the Lord is his name.(B)
Jeremiah 51:16
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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 lightnings for the rain,
and he brings out the wind from his storehouses.(A)
Jeremiah 5:22
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22 Do you not fear me? says the Lord;
Do you not tremble before me?
I placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,
a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass;
though the waves toss, they cannot prevail;
though they roar, they cannot pass over it.(A)
Psalm 78:23-24
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23 Yet he commanded the skies above
and opened the doors of heaven;(A)
24 he rained down on them manna to eat
and gave them the grain of heaven.(B)
2 Kings 7:19
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19 the captain had answered the man of God, “Even if the Lord were to make windows in the sky, could such a thing happen?” And he had answered, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat from it.”(A)
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Ezekiel 26:19
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19 For thus says the Lord God: When I make you a city laid waste, like cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,
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Proverbs 8:28-29
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28 when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep,
29 when he assigned to the sea its limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,(A)
Psalm 33:7
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7 He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle;
he put the deeps in storehouses.
Job 38:8-11
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8 “Or who shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb,(A)
9 when I made the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its swaddling band,(B)
10 and prescribed bounds for it,
and set bars and doors,(C)
11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come and no farther,
and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?(D)
2 Kings 7:2
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2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, “Even if the Lord were to make windows in the sky, could such a thing happen?” But he said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat from it.”(A)
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Genesis 1:7
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7 So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so.(A)
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Matthew 24:38
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38 For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark,
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Isaiah 24:19
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19 The earth is utterly broken;
the earth is torn apart;
the earth is violently shaken.(A)
Psalm 74:15
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15 You cut openings for springs and torrents;
you dried up ever-flowing streams.(A)
Genesis 6:17
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17 For my part, I am going to bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.(A)
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Job 28:4
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4 They open shafts in a valley away from human habitation;
they are forgotten by travelers;
they sway suspended, remote from people.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
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3 When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!(A)
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