Psalm 147:16
Good News Translation
He spreads snow like a blanket and scatters frost like dust.

New Revised Standard Version
He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes.

Contemporary English Version
He covers the ground with snow like a blanket of wool, and he scatters frost like ashes on the ground.

New American Bible
Thus he makes the snow like wool, and spreads the frost like ash;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes.

giveth

Psalm 148:8 Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds, which fulfil his word:

Job 37:6 He commandeth the snow to go down upon the earth, and the winter rain, and the shower of his strength.

Isaiah 55:10 And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return no more thither, but soak the earth, and water it, and make it to spring, and give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

scattereth

Job 37:9,10 Out of the inner parts shall a tempest come, and cold out of the north. . . .

Job 38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?

Context
It is Good to Sing Praises
15Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly. 16Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes.17He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold?…
Cross References
Exodus 16:14
And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the ground.

Job 37:6
He commandeth the snow to go down upon the earth, and the winter rain, and the shower of his strength.

Job 38:29
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?

Psalm 74:17
Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee.

Psalm 148:8
Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds, which fulfil his word:

Psalm 147:15
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