Psalms Chapter 147 verse 17 Holy Bible
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: Who can stand before his cold?
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He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.
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He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
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He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
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He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?
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Casting forth His ice like morsels, Before His cold who doth stand?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - He casteth forth his ice like morsels; or, "like crumbs;" i.e. in profusion, as men feed birds. The "ice" intended would seem to be that of hailstones. Who can stand before his cold? Though the thermometer rarely shows more than six or seven degrees of frost in Palestine, yet the Oriental is as much chilled by such a temperature as the Englishman by one twenty degrees lower. He shivers in his light attire, and is very reluctant to leave the shelter of his house or tent.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Morsels.--Or, crumbs. (Genesis 18:5; Judges 19:5.) Doubtless the allusion is to hail.