Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
He supplies snow like wool, scattering frost like ashes.
New American Standard Bible
He scatters the
King James Version
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
Holman Bible
He scatters frost like ashes;
A Conservative Version
He gives snow like wool. He scatters the hoar-frost like ashes.
American Standard Version
He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.
Amplified
He gives [to the earth] snow like [a blanket of] wool;
He scatters the frost like ashes.
Bible in Basic English
He gives snow like wool; he sends out ice-drops like dust.
Darby Translation
He giveth snow like wool, scattereth the hoar frost like ashes;
Julia Smith Translation
Giving snow as wool: he will scatter the hoarfrost as ashes.
King James 2000
He gives snow like wool: he scatters the frost like ashes.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[He] gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes;
Modern King James verseion
He gives snow like wool; He scatters the hoarfrost like ashes.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He giveth snow like wool, and scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
NET Bible
He sends the snow that is white like wool; he spreads the frost that is white like ashes.
New Heart English Bible
He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.
The Emphasized Bible
Who giveth snow like wool, Hoar-frost - like ashes, he scattereth:
Webster
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.
World English Bible
He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.
Youngs Literal Translation
Who is giving snow like wool, Hoar-frost as ashes He scattereth.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 147:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Providence
15 He sends out his command to the earth, making his word go forth quickly. 16 He supplies snow like wool, scattering frost like ashes. 17 He casts down his ice crystals like bread fragments. Who can endure his freezing cold?
Cross References
Job 37:6
For he says to the snow, "Fall to the earth.' He tells the rain, "Pour down,' then it rains profusely.
Job 38:29
Whose womb brings forth the ice? Who gives birth to frost out of an empty sky,
Psalm 148:8
fire, hail, snow, fog, and wind storm that carry out his command,
Job 37:9-10
"From the south, a whirlwind proceeds, out of the icy north winds.
Isaiah 55:10
"For just as the rain and snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, yielding seed for the sower and bread for eating,