Psalms 147:17

World English Bible (2000)

He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?

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  • Exod 9:23-25 : 23 Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt. 24 So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25 The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.
  • Josh 10:11 : 11 It happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than who the children of Israel killed with the sword.
  • Job 37:9-9 : 9 Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north. 10 By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is frozen.
  • Job 38:22-23 : 22 Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail, 23 which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
  • Job 38:29-30 : 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it? 30 The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
  • Ps 78:47-48 : 47 He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost. 48 He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

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    15 He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly.

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    18 He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

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    9 Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.

    10 By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is frozen.

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    12 It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,

  • Job 37:5-6
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    5 God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can't comprehend.

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    29 Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?

    30 The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

  • Ps 148:8
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    8 Lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

  • Nah 1:5-6
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    5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.

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    12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

    13 Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.

    14 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

    15 Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

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    14 Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

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    7 who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

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    22 Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

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    16 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

  • Job 37:17-18
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    17 You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind?

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    22 Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.

  • Job 6:16-17
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    16 Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.

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    27 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

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    13 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

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    32 He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

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    15 He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and confused them.

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    7 Yahweh's voice strikes with flashes of lightning.

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    30 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.

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    3 He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

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  • 2 Sam 22:9
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    9 Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it.

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    8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

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    3 A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.

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    47 He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.