Psalm 147:17
Good News Translation
He sends hail like gravel; no one can endure the cold he sends!

New Revised Standard Version
He hurls down hail like crumbs— who can stand before his cold?

Contemporary English Version
God sends down hailstones like chips of rocks. Who can stand the cold?

New American Bible
He disperses hail like crumbs. Who can withstand his cold?

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

casteth

Psalm 78:47,48 And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost. . . .

Exodus 9:23-25 And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightnings running along the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. . . .

Joshua 10:11 And when they were fleeing from the children of Israel, and were in the descent of Bethoron, the Lord cast down upon them great stones from heaven, as far as Azeca: and many more were killed with the hailstones, than were slain by the swords of the children of Israel,

Job 38:22,23 Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or hast thou beheld the treasures of the hail: . . .

who can stand

Job 38:29,30 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it? . . .

Context
It is Good to Sing Praises
16Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes. 17He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold?18He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall blow, and the waters shall run.…
Cross References
Job 37:9
Out of the inner parts shall a tempest come, and cold out of the north.

Job 37:10
When God bloweth there cometh frost, and again the waters are poured out abundantly.

Job 38:29
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?

Psalm 147:16
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