He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?
Parallel translations
- WEB He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?
- KJV He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
- NKJV He casts out His hail like morsels; Who can stand before His cold?
- NASB He hurls His ice as fragments; Who can stand before His cold?
- NLT He hurls the hail like stones. Who can stand against his freezing cold?
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Quick answer
God hurls hail like pebbles, and no one can stand His cold. His power in nature is overwhelming and beyond human resistance.
Overview
God casts down hail and sends cold so severe that none can withstand it, underscoring His sovereign might over creation. Such power evokes reverent fear. The God who commands the elements is the same God who graciously cares for His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Job 38:29–30From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
- Job 38:22–23Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
- Ps 78:47–48He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
- Job 37:9–10The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
- Exod 9:23–25So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.
- Josh 10:11As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
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