Psalms 147:17

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15 ^aHe sends out His command to the earth;
His word runs very swiftly.

16 ^aHe gives snow like wool;
He scatters the frost like ashes;

17 He casts out His hail like¹ morsels;
Who can stand before His cold?

18 ^aHe sends out His word and melts them;
He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow.

19 ^aHe declares His word to Jacob,
^bHis statutes and His judgments to Israel.

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Barnes' Notes

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Psalms 147:17

He casteth forth his ice like morsels - The word rendered morsels means properly a bit, a crumb, as of bread, Genesis 18:5; Judges 19:5. The allusion here would seem to be to hail, which God sends upon the earth as easily as one scatters crumbs of bread from the hand.

Who can stand before his cold? - Or, hail. The word is the same, except in pointing, as the preceding word rendered ice. The idea is that no one can stand before the peltings of the hail, when God sends it forth, or scatters it upon the earth.

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