Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
He gives snow like wool; he sends out ice-drops like dust.
New American Standard Bible
He scatters the
King James Version
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
Holman Bible
He scatters frost like ashes;
International Standard Version
He supplies snow like wool, scattering frost like ashes.
A Conservative Version
He gives snow like wool. He scatters the hoar-frost like ashes.
American Standard Version
He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.
Amplified
He gives [to the earth] snow like [a blanket of] wool;
He scatters the frost like ashes.
Darby Translation
He giveth snow like wool, scattereth the hoar frost like ashes;
Julia Smith Translation
Giving snow as wool: he will scatter the hoarfrost as ashes.
King James 2000
He gives snow like wool: he scatters the frost like ashes.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[He] gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes;
Modern King James verseion
He gives snow like wool; He scatters the hoarfrost like ashes.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He giveth snow like wool, and scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
NET Bible
He sends the snow that is white like wool; he spreads the frost that is white like ashes.
New Heart English Bible
He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.
The Emphasized Bible
Who giveth snow like wool, Hoar-frost - like ashes, he scattereth:
Webster
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.
World English Bible
He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.
Youngs Literal Translation
Who is giving snow like wool, Hoar-frost as ashes He scattereth.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 147:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Providence
15 He sends out his orders to the earth; his word goes out quickly. 16 He gives snow like wool; he sends out ice-drops like dust. 17 He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.
Cross References
Job 37:6
For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.
Job 38:29
Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?
Psalm 148:8
Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:
Job 37:9-10
Out of its place comes the storm-wind, and the cold out of its store-houses.
Isaiah 55:10
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;