Psalm 147:17 “He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?”

Psalm 147:17

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

He casteth foorth his yce like morsels: who can abide the colde thereof?

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Casting forth His ice like morsels, Before His cold who doth stand?

Bible in Basic English

He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.

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Cross references

“casteth”

Exodus 9:23–25 Joshua 10:11 Psalm 78:47 Psalm 78:48 Job 38:22 Job 38:23

Exodus 9:23–25 · BSB

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 · BSB

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.

Psalm 78:47 · BSB

He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

Psalm 78:48 · BSB

He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

Job 38:22 · BSB

Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

Job 38:23 · BSB

which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

“who can stand”

Job 38:29 Job 38:30

Job 38:29 · BSB

From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

Job 38:30 · BSB

when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

Also

Job 37:9–10

Job 37:9–10 · BSB

The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes;

18He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.

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