KJV King James Version
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
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Psalm 147:17
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?
WEB World English Bible
He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?
ASV American Standard Version
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: Who can stand before his cold?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Casting forth His ice like morsels, Before His cold who doth stand?
Surrounding context — Psalm 147
14 He maketh peace [in] thy borders, [and] filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
15 He sendeth forth his commandment [upon] earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
16 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, [and] the waters flow.
19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his] judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
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Job 38:29-30Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?Job 38:22-23Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,Job 37:9-10Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.Psalm 78:47-48He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.Exodus 9:23-25And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.Joshua 10:11And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, [and] were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: [they were] more which died with hailstones than [they] whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
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