Verse (Click for Chapter) 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 VersionCasting 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 BibleHe sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold? Catholic Public Domain Version 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 BibleHe 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 1917He 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? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible 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? … Jump to Previous Blast Casteth Casting Casts Cold Crumbs Forth Fragments Hail Hard Hurls Ice Morsels Sends Stand Water WithstandJump to Next Blast Casteth Casting Casts Cold Crumbs Forth Fragments Hail Hard Hurls Ice Morsels Sends Stand Water WithstandPsalm 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 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? Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew He casts forthמַשְׁלִ֣יךְ (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 Links Psalm 147:17 NIVPsalm 147:17 NLT Psalm 147:17 ESV Psalm 147:17 NASB Psalm 147:17 KJV Psalm 147:17 BibleApps.com Psalm 147:17 Biblia Paralela Psalm 147:17 Chinese Bible Psalm 147:17 French Bible Psalm 147:17 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 147:17 He hurls down his hail like pebbles (Psalm Ps Psa.) |