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Psalms 147:17

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

KJV

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

ASV

מַשְׁלִ֣יךְ קַֽרְח֣/וֹ כְ/פִתִּ֑ים לִ/פְנֵ֥י קָ֝רָת֗/וֹ מִ֣י יַעֲמֹֽד

Hebrew

He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold?

Douay-Rheims

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

YLT

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הוּ
hv
verb · 125×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
עֹמְדִ֖ים
'mdym
verb · 526×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
פַּת
pt
noun · 15×
קָ֑רַח
qrch
noun · 7×
קָּרָֽה
qrh
noun · 5×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Exod 9:23 — 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.
  • Job 37:9 — Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
  • Job 38:22 — Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
  • Job 38:29 — Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
  • Josh 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 whi
  • Ps 78:47 — He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.