Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.
New American Standard Bible
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Who
King James Version
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Holman Bible
prepares rain for the earth,
and causes grass to grow on the hills.
International Standard Version
He shields the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth and making grass grow on the hills.
A Conservative Version
who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
American Standard Version
Who covereth the heavens with clouds, Who prepareth rain for the earth, Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Amplified
Who covers the heavens with clouds,
Who provides rain for the earth,
Who makes grass grow on the mountains.
Darby Translation
Who covereth the heavens with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains;
Julia Smith Translation
Covering the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth, causing the grass to spring up on the mountains.
King James 2000
Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
Lexham Expanded Bible
who covers [the] heavens with clouds, who provides rain for the earth, who causes grass to grow on the mountains.
Modern King James verseion
who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the mountains.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
which covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth, and maketh the grass to grow upon the mountains;
NET Bible
He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.
New Heart English Bible
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
The Emphasized Bible
Who covereth the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth, who causeth the mountains to sprout grass:
Webster
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
World English Bible
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
Youngs Literal Translation
Who is covering the heavens with clouds, Who is preparing for the earth rain, Who is causing grass to spring up on mountains,
Themes
Clouds » Power and wisdom of God exhibited in forming
Clouds » Often cover the heavens
Mountains » Afforded pasturage
Topics
Interlinear
Kacah
Kuwn
'erets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 147:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Providence
7 Make songs of praise to the Lord; make melody to our God with instruments of music. 8 By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains. 9 He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.
Cross References
Job 5:10
Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:
Psalm 104:13-14
He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.
Genesis 9:14
And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,
1 Kings 18:44-45
And the seventh time he said, I see a cloud coming up out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. Then he said, Go up and say to Ahab, Get your carriage ready and go down or the rain will keep you back.
Job 26:8-9
By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
Job 36:27-33
For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,
Job 38:24-27
Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?
Psalm 65:9-13
You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.
Psalm 135:1
Let the Lord be praised. O you servants of the Lord, give praise to the name of the Lord.
Isaiah 5:6
And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
Jeremiah 14:22
Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
Joel 2:23
Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.
Amos 5:7-8
You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;
Matthew 5:45
So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.
Acts 14:17
But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.
James 5:17-18
Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.