Psalms 147:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He sends the snow that is white like wool; he spreads the frost that is white like ashes.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 37:6 : 6 For to the snow he says,‘Fall to earth,’ and to the torrential rains,‘Pour down.’
  • Job 38:29 : 29 From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,
  • Ps 148:8 : 8 O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,
  • Isa 55:10 : 10 The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.
  • Job 37:9-9 : 9 A tempest blows out from its chamber, icy cold from the driving winds. 10 The breath of God produces ice, and the breadth of the waters freeze solid.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 147:17-19
    3 verses
    86%

    17He throws his hailstones like crumbs. Who can withstand the cold wind he sends?

    18He then orders it all to melt; he breathes on it, and the water flows.

    19He proclaims his word to Jacob, his statutes and regulations to Israel.

  • 6For to the snow he says,‘Fall to earth,’ and to the torrential rains,‘Pour down.’

  • 15He sends his command through the earth; swiftly his order reaches its destination.

  • 8O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,

  • Job 37:9-12
    4 verses
    74%

    9A tempest blows out from its chamber, icy cold from the driving winds.

    10The breath of God produces ice, and the breadth of the waters freeze solid.

    11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

    12The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

  • Job 38:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,

    30when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

  • Ps 18:12-14
    3 verses
    71%

    12From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.

    13The LORD thundered in the sky; the Most High shouted.

    14He shot his arrows and scattered them, many lightning bolts and routed them.

  • 22Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,

  • Job 36:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    27He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,

    28which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

  • 16When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

  • Job 6:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16They are dark because of ice; snow is piled up over them.

    17When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

  • 10The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.

  • 7He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

  • 15He shot arrows and scattered them, lightning and routed them.

  • 14When the layer of dew had evaporated, there on the surface of the wilderness was a thin flaky substance, thin like frost on the earth.

  • 30The LORD will give a mighty shout and intervene in power, with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.

  • 14When the Sovereign One scatters kings, let it snow on Zalmon!

  • Job 37:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17You, whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind,

    18will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

  • 8He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.

  • 32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.

  • 32He sent hail along with the rain; there was lightning in their land.

  • 14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

  • 13When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

  • Ps 78:47-48
    2 verses
    68%

    47He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-fig trees with driving rain.

    48He rained hail down on their cattle, and hurled lightning bolts down on their livestock.

  • 13Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him, for he refreshes the heart of his masters.

  • 14Does the snow ever completely vanish from the rocky slopes of Lebanon? Do the cool waters from those distant mountains ever cease to flow?

  • 25He gave the order for a windstorm, and it stirred up the waves of the sea.

  • 22From the north he comes in golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.

  • 3Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

  • 32With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

  • 24In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

  • 7The LORD’s shout strikes with flaming fire.

  • 9He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.

  • 18How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

  • 16You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away; the wind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the LORD; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.