It Is Good to Sing Praises
Psalms 147:17
In 11 translations
- BSB
- He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?Or like crumbs or like morsels
- 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?
- LSV
- Casting forth His ice like morsels, || Who stands before His cold?
- YLT
- Casting forth His ice like morsels, Before His cold who doth stand?
- DBY
- He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
- DRC147:6
- He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold?
- GNV
- He casteth foorth his yce like morsels: who can abide the colde thereof?
- JPS
- He casteth forth His ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold?
- LXXE147:6
- Casting forth his ice like morsels: who shall stand before his cold?
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- מַשְׁלִ֣יךְ קַֽרְח֣וֹ כְפִתִּ֑ים לִפְנֵ֥י קָ֝רָת֗וֹ מִ֣י יַעֲמֹֽד׃
- LXX-Br147:6
- Βάλλοντος κρύσταλλον αὐτοῦ ὠσεὶ ψωμούς· κατὰ πρόσωπον ψύχους αὐτοῦ τίς ὑποστήσεται;
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Job 38:29–30From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven, when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
- Job 38:22–23Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail, which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
- Psalms 78:47–48He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet. He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
- Job 37:9–10The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds. By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
- Exodus 9:23–25So 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. The hail fell and the lightning continued…
- Joshua 10:11As 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.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 147:6 in some Bibles
- 147:17 in most Bibles