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Psalms 147:17
Psalms 147:17 is verse 17 of Psalms chapter 147, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?
Or like crumbs or like morsels
King James Version
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?
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Psalms 147:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs swiftly.
16 He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes;
17 He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?
18 He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.
19 He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 78:47He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
Psalms 78:48He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
Exodus 9:23So 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.
Exodus 9:24The 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.
Exodus 9:25Throughout 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.
Joshua 10:11As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
Job 38:22Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
Job 38:23which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
Job 38:29From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
Job 38:30when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?