Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version He spreads the snow like wool and scatters the frost like ashes. New Living Translation He sends the snow like white wool; he scatters frost upon the ground like ashes. English Standard Version He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes. Berean Standard Bible He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes; King James Bible He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. New King James Version He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes; New American Standard Bible He showers snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes. NASB 1995 He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes. NASB 1977 He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes. Legacy Standard Bible The One who gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes, Amplified Bible He gives [to the earth] snow like [a blanket of] wool; He scatters the frost like ashes. Christian Standard Bible He spreads snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes; Holman Christian Standard Bible He spreads snow like wool; He scatters frost like ashes; American Standard Version He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. Aramaic Bible in Plain English He gives snow like wool and he scatters frost like ashes. Brenton Septuagint Translation He gives snow like wool: he scatters the mist like ashes. Contemporary English Version He covers the ground with snow like a blanket of wool, and he scatters frost like ashes on the ground. Douay-Rheims Bible Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes. English Revised Version He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoar frost like ashes. GOD'S WORD® Translation He is the one who sends snow like wool and scatters frost like ashes. Good News Translation He spreads snow like a blanket and scatters frost like dust. International Standard Version He supplies snow like wool, scattering frost like ashes. JPS Tanakh 1917 He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. Literal Standard Version Who is giving snow like wool, | He scatters hoarfrost as ashes. Majority Standard Bible He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes; New American Bible Thus he makes the snow like wool, and spreads the frost like ash; NET Bible He sends the snow that is white like wool; he spreads the frost that is white like ashes. New Revised Standard Version He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes. New Heart English Bible He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes. Webster's Bible Translation He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. World English Bible He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes. Young's Literal Translation Who is giving snow like wool, Hoar-frost as ashes He scattereth. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context It is Good to Sing Praises…15He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs swiftly. 16He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes; 17He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?… Cross References Exodus 16:14 When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground. Job 37:6 For He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the gentle rain, 'Pour out a mighty downpour.' Job 38:29 From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven, Psalm 74:17 You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter. Psalm 148:8 lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word, Treasury of Scripture He gives snow like wool: he scatters the hoarfrost like ashes. giveth Psalm 148:8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word: Job 37:6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. Isaiah 55:10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: scattereth Job 37:9,10 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north… Job 38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? Jump to Previous Ashes Dust Frost Gives Hoar Hoarfrost Hoar-Frost Ice-Drops Scattereth Scatters Sends Snow Spreads WoolJump to Next Ashes Dust Frost Gives Hoar Hoarfrost Hoar-Frost Ice-Drops Scattereth Scatters Sends Snow Spreads WoolPsalm 147 1. The prophet exhorts to praise God for his care of the church4. His power and wisdom 6. His mercy 7. His providence 12. To praise him for his blessings upon the kingdom 15. For his power over the elements 19. And for his ordinances in the church (16) Like wool.--Both in whiteness and fleecy texture. "The snow falls in large flakes, equal in size to a walnut, and has more resemblance to locks of wool than it has in our country" (Niven, Biblical Antiq., p. 21). "A spice quam densum tacitarum vellus aquarum Defluat. MART., Ep. iv. 3. Verse 16. - He giveth snow like wool. The loveliness of new-fallen snow has evidently been felt by the psalmist, to whom it has seemed like a spotless robe of whitest wool spread upon the earth. Snow, though rare in Palestine, does occasionally fall, and is said to "cover the streets of Jerusalem two winters out of three. It generally comes in small quantities; but there are sometimes very snowy winters." In 1879, for instance, snow lay in Jerusalem to a depth of seventeen inches (Geikic, 'The Holy Land and the Bible,' vol. 2. p. 58). He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. The metaphor is less appropriate, and was selected, probably, on account of the near resemblance of the two words, kephor and kaepher.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew He spreadsהַנֹּתֵ֣ן (han·nō·ṯên) Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set the snow שֶׁ֣לֶג (še·leḡ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7950: Snow like wool; כַּצָּ֑מֶר (kaṣ·ṣā·mer) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6785: Wool He scatters יְפַזֵּֽר׃ (yə·p̄az·zêr) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6340: To scatter the frost כְּ֝פ֗וֹר (kə·p̄ō·wr) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3713: A cover, a tankard, white frost like ashes; כָּאֵ֥פֶר (kā·’ê·p̄er) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 665: Ashes Links Psalm 147:16 NIVPsalm 147:16 NLT Psalm 147:16 ESV Psalm 147:16 NASB Psalm 147:16 KJV Psalm 147:16 BibleApps.com Psalm 147:16 Biblia Paralela Psalm 147:16 Chinese Bible Psalm 147:16 French Bible Psalm 147:16 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 147:16 He gives snow like wool and scatters (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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