"Thus I was: by day the heat consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

When the layer of dew evaporated, behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground.

Which are turbid because of ice And into which the snow melts.

"Desist now, let there be no injustice; Even desist, my righteousness is yet in it.

"From the breath of God ice is made, And the expanse of the waters is frozen.

"From whose womb has come the ice? And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?

He destroyed their vines with hailstones And their sycamore trees with frost.

He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes.

'Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah, "He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

Now over the heads of the living beings there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of crystal, spread out over their heads.