Parallel Verses
Amplified
He casts out His ice like fragments;
Who can stand before His cold?
New American Standard Bible
Who can stand before His
King James Version
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
Holman Bible
Who can withstand His cold?
International Standard Version
He casts down his ice crystals like bread fragments. Who can endure his freezing cold?
A Conservative Version
He casts forth his ice like morsels. Who can stand before his cold?
American Standard Version
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: Who can stand before his cold?
Bible in Basic English
He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.
Darby Translation
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
Julia Smith Translation
Casting his ice as morsels: before his cold who shall stand?
King James 2000
He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[he] throws his hail like crumbs. Who can stand before his cold?
Modern King James verseion
He casts forth His ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He casteth forth his ice like morsels. Who is able to abide his frost?
NET Bible
He throws his hailstones like crumbs. Who can withstand the cold wind he sends?
New Heart English Bible
He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?
The Emphasized Bible
Casting forth his ice like crumbs, Before his cold, who can stand?
Webster
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?
Youngs Literal Translation
Casting forth His ice like morsels, Before His cold who doth stand?
Interlinear
Shalak
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 147:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Providence
16
He gives [to the earth] snow like [a blanket of] wool;
He scatters the frost like ashes.
He casts out His ice like fragments;
Who can stand before His cold?
He sends out His word and melts the ice;
He causes His wind to blow and the waters to flow.
Cross References
Exodus 9:23-25
Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning (fireballs) ran down to the earth and along the ground. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.
Joshua 10:11
As they fled before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down large stones [of hail] from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. More [Amorites] died because of the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.
Job 37:9-10
“Out of its chamber comes the storm,
And cold from the north wind.
Job 38:22-23
“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
Job 38:29-30
“Out of whose womb has come the ice?
And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
Psalm 78:47-48
He destroyed their vines with [great] hailstones
And their sycamore trees with frost.