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It Is Good to Sing Praises

Psalms 147:18

In 11 translations

BSB
He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.
KJV
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
WEB
He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
ASV
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: He causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
LSV
He sends forth His word and melts them, || He causes His wind to blow—the waters flow.
YLT
He sendeth forth His word and melteth them, He causeth His wind to blow — the waters flow.
DBY
He sendeth his word, and melteth them; he causeth his wind to blow — the waters flow.
DRC147:7
He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall blow, and the waters shall run.
GNV
He sendeth his worde and melteth them: he causeth his winde to blowe, and the waters flowe.
JPS
He sendeth forth His word, and melteth them; He causeth His wind to blow, and the waters flow.
LXXE147:7
He shall send out his word, and melt them: he shall blow with his wind, and the waters shall flow.

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Original-language editions

WLC
יִשְׁלַ֣ח דְּבָר֣וֹ וְיַמְסֵ֑ם יַשֵּׁ֥ב ר֝וּח֗וֹ יִזְּלוּ־מָֽיִם׃
LXX-Br147:7
Ἀποστελεῖ τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ, καὶ τήξει αὐτά, πνεύσει τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ῥυήσεται ὕδατα.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 33:9For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.
  • Psalms 147:15He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs swiftly.
  • Job 37:10By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
  • Psalms 107:20He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.
  • Job 6:16–17darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow, but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.
  • Job 37:17You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 147:7 in some Bibles
  • 147:18 in most Bibles

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