Psalms 147:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?”
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BSBPD
“He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“He casteth forth his ice like morsels: Who can stand before his cold?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Casting forth His ice like morsels, Before His cold who doth stand?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 147:17 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 9:23So 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 10:11As 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.
- Job 37:9The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
- Job 37:10By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
- Job 38:22Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
- Job 38:29From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
- Psalms 78:47He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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