🎵WEB · Psalms 147:17
What does Psalms 147:17 mean?
"He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?"
— Psalms 147:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly.
He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.
He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?
He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise Yah!
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