Parallel Verses
Amplified
Who covers the heavens with clouds,
Who provides 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.
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.
World English Bible
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on 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 the Lord with thanksgiving;
Sing praises to our God with the lyre,
Who covers the heavens with clouds,
Who provides rain for the earth,
Who makes grass grow on the mountains.
He gives to the beast its food,
And to the young ravens that for which they cry.
Cross References
Job 5:10
“He gives rain upon the earth
And sends waters upon the fields,
Psalm 104:13-14
He waters the mountains from His upper chambers;
The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.
Genesis 9:14
It shall come about, when I bring clouds over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the clouds,
1 Kings 18:44-45
And at the seventh time the servant said, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is coming up from the sea.” And Elijah said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the rain shower does not stop you.’”
Job 26:8-9
“He wraps the waters in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once],
And the cloud does not burst under them.
Job 36:27-33
“For He draws up the drops of water,
They distill rain from the mist,
Job 38:24-27
“Where is the way that the light is distributed,
Or the east wind scattered over the earth?
Psalm 65:9-13
You visit the earth and make it overflow [with water];
You greatly enrich it;
The stream of God is full of water;
You provide their grain, when You have prepared the earth.
Psalm 135:1
Praise the name of the Lord;
Praise Him, O servants of the Lord (priests, Levites),
Isaiah 5:6
“I will turn it into a wasteland;
It will not be pruned or cultivated,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.”
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the idols of the nations who can send rain?
Or can the heavens [of their own will] give showers?
Is it not You, O Lord our God?
Therefore we will wait and hope [confidently] in You,
For You are the one who has made all these things [the heavens and the rain].
Joel 2:23
So rejoice, O children of Zion,
And delight in the Lord, your God;
For He has given you the early [autumn] rain in vindication
And He has poured down the rain for you,
The early [autumn] rain and the late [spring] rain, as before.
Amos 5:7-8
“For those [shall be consumed] who turn justice into wormwood (bitterness)
And cast righteousness down to the earth.”
Matthew 5:45
Acts 14:17
yet He did not leave Himself without some witness [as evidence of Himself], in that He kept constantly doing good things and showing you kindness, and giving you rains from heaven and productive seasons, filling your hearts with food and happiness.”
James 5:17-18
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours [with the same physical, mental, and spiritual limitations and shortcomings], and he prayed