Parallel Verses
World English Bible
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
New American Standard Bible
Who
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.
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.
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.
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 Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God, 8 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains. 9 He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
Cross References
Job 5:10
who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
Psalm 104:13-14
He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
Genesis 9:14
It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
1 Kings 18:44-45
It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, "Go up, tell Ahab, 'Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn't stop you.'"
Job 26:8-9
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
Job 36:27-33
For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
Job 38:24-27
By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
Psalm 65:9-13
You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
Psalm 135:1
Praise Yah! Praise the name of Yahweh! Praise him, you servants of Yahweh,
Isaiah 5:6
I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
Joel 2:23
"Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
Amos 5:7-8
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:
Matthew 5:45
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
Acts 14:17
Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
James 5:17-18
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.