Psalm 147:16 Parallel Translations
NASB: He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: He is the one who sends snow like wool and scatters frost like ashes.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
ASV: He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.
BBE: He gives snow like wool; he sends out ice-drops like dust.
DBY: He giveth snow like wool, scattereth the hoar frost like ashes;
ERV: He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoar frost like ashes.
JPS: He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.
WBS: He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.
WEB: He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.
YLT: Who is giving snow like wool, Hoar-frost as ashes He scattereth.
Psalm 147:16 Cross References
XREF:Job 37:6 "For to the snow He says, 'Fall on the earth,' And to the downpour and the rain, 'Be strong.'

Job 38:29 "From whose womb has come the ice? And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?

Psalm 148:8 Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His word; (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
WES: 147:16 Like wool - Not only in colour and shape, and softness, but also in use, keeping the fruits of the earth warm. Ashes - In colour and smallness of parts, as also in its burning quality.
MHC: 147:12-20 The church, like Jerusalem of old, built up and preserved by the wisdom, power, and goodness of God, is exhorted to praise him for all the benefits and blessings vouchsafed to her; and these are represented by his favours in the course of nature. The thawing word may represent the gospel of Christ, and the thawing wind the Spirit of Christ; for the Spirit is compared to the wind, Joh 3:8. Converting grace softens the heart that was hard frozen, and melts it into tears of repentance, and makes good reflections to flow, which before were chilled and stopped up. The change which the thaw makes is very evident, yet how it is done no one can say. Such is the change wrought in the conversion of a soul, when God's word and Spirit are sent to melt it and restore it to itself.
CONC:Ashes Dust Frost Gives Giveth Giving Hoar Hoarfrost Hoar-frost Ice-drops Scattereth Scatters Sends Snow Wool
PREV:Ashes Dust Frost Gives Hoar Hoarfrost Hoar-Frost Ice-Drops Scattereth Scatters Sends Snow Spreads Wool
NEXT:Ashes Dust Frost Gives Hoar Hoarfrost Hoar-Frost Ice-Drops Scattereth Scatters Sends Snow Spreads Wool
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