Psalms 147:17
15 He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs swiftly.
16 He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes;
He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?
18 He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.
19 He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?
- KJV
- He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
- WEB
- He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?
- ASV
- He casteth forth his ice like morsels: Who can stand before his cold?
- DARBY
- He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
- BLB
- casting forth His hail like morsels; before the face of His cold, who can stand?
- ÅB
- Han kaster sin is ut som småstykker; hvem kan stå for hans kulde?
- OTB
- Han kaster sin is som stykker;
Hvem kan tåle Hans kulde? - B1930
- Han kaster sin is ut som småstykker; hvem kan stå for hans kulde?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 38:29–30
From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
Read in contextJob 38:22–23
Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
Read in contextPsalms 78:47–48
He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
Read in contextJob 37:9–10
The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
Read in contextExodus 9:23–25
So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.
Read in contextJoshua 10:11
As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
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