Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest,
So honor is not fitting for a [shortsighted] fool.


She does not fear the snow for her household,
For all in her household are clothed in [expensive] scarlet [wool].


“For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth’;
And [He speaks] to the showers and to the downpour [of His mighty rains], ‘Be strong.’


Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many notable acts, killed two [famous] warriors of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.


‘Will the snow of [Mount] Lebanon melt and vanish from its rocks [which tower above Israel]?
Will the cold, rushing waters of foreign lands [that flow down from the distant land] be dried up?


He gives [to the earth] snow like [a blanket of] wool;
He scatters the frost like ashes.


Which are dull and dirty because of ice,
And into which the snow melts and hides itself;


“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,



“For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth’;
And [He speaks] to the showers and to the downpour [of His mighty rains], ‘Be strong.’


Which are dull and dirty because of ice,
And into which the snow melts and hides itself;


“If I were to wash myself with snow
And cleanse my hands with lye,