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Bible Verses About The Plague or Pestilence

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  1. For the Lord will pass through striking the Egyptians: and when he shall see the blood on the transom, and on both the posts, he will pass over the door of the house, and not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses and to hurt you.

  2. And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle.

  3. And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and all Egypt: and there arose a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house wherein there lay not one dead.

  4. The Lord therefore struck the people for the guilt, on occasion of the calf which Aaron had made.

  5. I also will walk contrary to you, and will strike you seven times for your sins.

  6. And I will bring in upon you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you shall flee into the cities, I will send the pestilence in the midst of you. And you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies,

  7. As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither had that kind of meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked against the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague.

  8. Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague rageth.

  9. When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the multitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the incense:

  10. And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the people, and the plague ceased.

  11. And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and seven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition of Core.

  12. And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant after the destruction was over.

  13. Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a daughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day of the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.

  14. May the Lord set the pestilence upon thee, until he consume thee out of the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.

  15. And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning unto the time appointed, and there died of the people from Dan to Bersabee seventy thousand men.

  16. And when the angel of the Lord had stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord had pity on the affliction, and said to the angel that slew the people: It is enough: now hold thy hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.

  17. If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence, or corrupt air, or blasting, or locust, or mildew; if their enemy afflict them, besieging the gates, whatsoever plague, whatsoever infirmity,

  18. Whatsoever curse or imprecation shall happen to any man of thy people Israel: when a man shall know the wound of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands in this house;

  19. If evils fall upon us, the sword of judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand in thy presence before this house, in which thy name is called upon: and we will cry to thee in our afflictions, and thou wilt hear, and save us.

  20. For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.

  21. He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

  22. For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in the works of thy hands I shall rejoice.

  23. O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.

  24. The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.

  25. And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still.