Psalm 147:17

Translations

Modern

He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?

Traditional

He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

Literal

…casting forth His hail like morsels; before the face of His cold, who can stand?

Latin

Mittit crystallum suam sicut buccellas: ante faciem frigoris ejus quis sustinebit?

Original

Hebrew

English

He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?

Notes

Psalms 147:15–18

Simply by speaking his command, the Lord can change the season from harsh winter to refreshing spring (see Psalms 147:8; 148:5–6).

Psalms 147:1–20

The psalmist calls for the Lord to be praised for restoring and blessing Zion, caring for the poor, displaying his power over nature, and revealing himself to his people.

Psalms 146:1–150:6

The Psalter ends with five hallelujah psalms, so named because each begins and ends with Praise the LORD! (Hebrew haleluyah).

Theme notes and profiles

Questions and Doubt

Related verses

Job 38:29–30
From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
Job 38:22–23
Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
Psalm 78:47–48
He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
Job 37:9–10
The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
Exodus 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.
Joshua 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.

Glossary

Hallel Music Psalms, Book of

Topics

God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ice: General Scriptures Concerning Praise: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Water: Congealed by Cold

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