Parallel Verses
NET Bible
He throws his hailstones like crumbs. Who can withstand the cold wind he sends?
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?
Amplified
He casts out His ice like fragments;
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?
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 sends the snow that is white like wool; he spreads the frost that is white like ashes. 17 He throws his hailstones like crumbs. Who can withstand the cold wind he sends? 18 He then orders it all to melt; he breathes on it, and the water flows.
Cross References
Exodus 9:23-25
When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the Lord caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt.
Joshua 10:11
As they fled from Israel on the slope leading down from Beth Horon, the Lord threw down on them large hailstones from the sky, all the way to Azekah. They died -- in fact, more died from the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.
Job 37:9-10
A tempest blows out from its chamber, icy cold from the driving winds.
Job 38:22-23
Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,
Job 38:29-30
From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,
Psalm 78:47-48
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-fig trees with driving rain.