Psalm 147:17
New International Version
He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can withstand his icy blast?

New Living Translation
He hurls the hail like stones. Who can stand against his freezing cold?

English Standard Version
He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold?

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

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

New King James Version
He casts out His hail like morsels; Who can stand before His cold?

New American Standard Bible
He hurls His ice as fragments; Who can stand before His cold?

NASB 1995
He casts forth His ice as fragments; Who can stand before His cold?

NASB 1977
He casts forth His ice as fragments; Who can stand before His cold?

Legacy Standard Bible
Who casts forth His ice as fragments; Who can stand before His cold?

Amplified Bible
He casts out His ice like fragments; Who can stand before His cold?

Christian Standard Bible
he throws his hailstones like crumbs. Who can withstand his cold?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He throws His hailstones like crumbs. Who can withstand His cold?

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

Contemporary English Version
God sends down hailstones like chips of rocks. Who can stand the cold?

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He is the one who throws his hailstones like breadcrumbs. Who can withstand his chilling blast?

Good News Translation
He sends hail like gravel; no one can endure the cold he sends!

International Standard Version
He casts down his ice crystals like bread fragments. Who can endure his freezing cold?

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

NET Bible
He throws his hailstones like crumbs. Who can withstand the cold wind he sends?

New Heart English Bible
He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?

Webster's Bible Translation
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?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Casting forth His ice like morsels, "" Who stands before His cold?

Young's Literal Translation
Casting forth His ice like morsels, Before His cold who doth stand?

Smith's Literal Translation
Casting his ice as morsels: before his cold who shall stand?
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold?

Catholic Public Domain Version
He sends his ice crystals like morsels. Who can stand firm before the face of his cold?

New American Bible
He disperses hail like crumbs. Who can withstand his cold?

New Revised Standard Version
He hurls down hail like crumbs— who can stand before his cold?
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
He casts forth his ice like morsels; who can stand before his cold?

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
He casts ice like morsels; who can stand before his cold?
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
He casteth forth His ice like crumbs; Who can stand before His cold?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Casting forth his ice like morsels: who shall stand before his cold?

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Context
It is Good to Sing Praises
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? 18He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.…

Cross References
Job 37:9-10
The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds. / By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.

Job 38:29-30
From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven, / when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

Isaiah 55:10
For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,

Job 6:16-17
darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow, / but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.

Jeremiah 36:30
Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.

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. / The hail fell and the lightning continued flashing through it. The hail was so severe that nothing like it had ever been seen in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation. / Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast; it beat down every plant of the field and stripped every tree.

Isaiah 30:30
And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.

Ezekiel 13:11-13
tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth. / Surely when the wall has fallen, you will not be asked, ‘Where is the whitewash with which you covered it?’ / Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.

Matthew 24:20
Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath.

Mark 13:18
Pray that this will not occur in the winter.

Luke 21:11
There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

Revelation 16:21
And great hailstones weighing almost a hundred pounds each rained down on them from above. And men cursed God for the plague of hail, because it was so horrendous.

Job 37:6
For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’

Isaiah 28:2
Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground.

Genesis 8:22
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”


Treasury of Scripture

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

casteth

Psalm 78:47,48
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost…

Exodus 9:23-25
And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt…

Joshua 10:11
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

who can stand

Job 38:29,30
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? …

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Psalm 147
1. The prophet exhorts to praise God for his care of the church
4. 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














He casts forth His hail like pebbles
This phrase emphasizes the power and sovereignty of God over nature. The Hebrew word for "hail" is "בָּרָד" (barad), which is often associated with divine judgment and power in the Old Testament. Hail is depicted as a tool in God's arsenal, used to demonstrate His might and authority. Historically, hailstorms were seen as acts of divine intervention, often bringing destruction to crops and property, which underscores the awe and reverence due to God. The comparison to "pebbles" suggests the ease with which God can wield such power, as if scattering small stones, highlighting His effortless control over creation.

Who can withstand His icy blast?
This rhetorical question underscores the futility of resisting God's will. The Hebrew word for "withstand" is "עָמַד" (amad), meaning to stand or endure. It implies that no human or force of nature can oppose God's decrees. The "icy blast" refers to the cold, harsh winds that accompany winter storms, symbolizing trials and challenges that God allows or sends. In the biblical context, cold and ice are often metaphors for hardship and testing. This phrase serves as a reminder of God's omnipotence and the human need for humility and submission to His divine plan. It inspires believers to trust in God's wisdom and timing, even amidst life's storms.

(17) Morsels.--Or, crumbs. (Genesis 18:5; Judges 19:5.) Doubtless the allusion is to hail.

Verse 17. - He casteth forth his ice like morsels; or, "like crumbs;" i.e. in profusion, as men feed birds. The "ice" intended would seem to be that of hailstones. Who can stand before his cold? Though the thermometer rarely shows more than six or seven degrees of frost in Palestine, yet the Oriental is as much chilled by such a temperature as the Englishman by one twenty degrees lower. He shivers in his light attire, and is very reluctant to leave the shelter of his house or tent.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He casts forth
מַשְׁלִ֣יךְ (maš·lîḵ)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7993: To throw out, down, away

His hail
קַֽרְח֣וֹ (qar·ḥōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7140: Ice, hail, rock crystal

like pebbles.
כְפִתִּ֑ים (ḵə·p̄it·tîm)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 6595: Fragment, bit, morsel

Who
מִ֣י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

can withstand
לִפְנֵ֥י (lip̄·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

His icy blast?
קָ֝רָת֗וֹ (qā·rā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7135: Coolness


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