Exodus 9:23-25; Job 38:22; Job 38:23; Job 38:29; Job 38:30; Joshua 10:11; Psalms 78:4; Psalms 78:47
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...
CXLVII. The LXX, perhaps rightly, divides the Ps. into two, Psalms 147:1-11 and Psalms 147:12-20 . Psalms 147:1-11 . An invitation to prais...
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? He casteth forth his ice - קרחו korcho, (probably hailstones), like crumbs. Wh...
He giveth snow, &c.— The winters in the east, in some years, and at some places, are remarkably cold and severe. Fulcherius Carnotensis saw the...
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. He caste...
A song of praise in which the Psalmist recounts God's mercies (1) in restoring Jerusalem, (2) in helping those cast down, (3) in caring for the anima...
Morsels ] crumbs (of bread). Frost and snow at Jerusalem are comparatively rare. A change soon follows: cp. Psalms 147:18 . 19, 20. The writer r...
Morsels. — Or, crumbs. ( Genesis 18:5 ; Judges 19:5 .) Doubtless the allusion is to hail.
Psalms 147:1-20 THE threefold calls to praise Jehovah ( Psalms 147:1 , Psalms 147:7 , Psalms 147:12 ) divide this psalm into three parts, the tw...
Peace and Prosperity Psalms 147:12-20 From Psalms 147:12 on there is a more personal address to Jerusalem and Zion. The thee and thou jus...
In this psalm, beginning with a call which declares the pleasantness and comeliness of praise (v. Psa 147:1), the singer first celebrates the Divine...
New and increasing claims are upon Zion, for renewed instances of divine favor. And, Reader! this is your case, and mine. Every day, nay every moment...
He casteth forth his ice like morsels ,.... Divided like morsels, as the Targum; cut into pieces, like morsels of bread. This seems to have respect...
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? Ver. 17. He casteth forth his ice like morsels ] Or, shivers of bread. It...
He giveth snow like wool Not only in colour, and shape, and softness, and its falling silently like a lock of wool; but in its covering the earth a...
Jerusalem and Zion Called to Praise to God; God's Favour to Israel. 1...
His ice; either, 1. Pieces of ice, which God may be said to cast forth, or to cast down , because he sendeth it, and ofttimes suddenly; or,...
INTRODUCTION “Like the last Psalm, and like those which follow it, this is evidently an anthem intended for the service of the Second Temple. It cel...
Psalms 147:1 . Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; Ye that know him, ye that love him, «praise y...
Psalms 147:1 . Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. «It is good,» that is t...
This Book of Psalms ends its golden stream in a cataract of praise. The last Psalms are Hallelujah Psalms; this one begins and ends, as several other...
Psalms 147:1 . Praise ye the LORD: This Psalm begins and ends with Hallelujah. So may this service, and so may our lives, commence and conclude w...
This psalm, like the preseding, is without title in the Hebrew or Chaldee; but is ascribed by the Versions to Haggai and Zechariah. REFLECTIONS....
He hath strengthened the bars of thy gates. Piety exulting in Divine goodness I. In the general prosperity of society. He recognizes the good h...
He giveth snow like wool. Frost and thaw Looking out of our window one morning we saw the earth robed in a white mantle; for in a few short bou...
Who can stand before His cold? His cold In former days religious people were too much given to introducing the Deity directly into the workings...
EXPOSITION This psalm is generally assigned to the time of the dedication of the city wall ( Nehemiah 12:27-16 ), when the gate-towers had been...
Hallelujah to the God of Zion. A Hallelujah Psalm, setting forth God's providential care toward all creatures, but especially toward His people, H...
He casteth forth His ice like morsels, namely, in the form of hail; who can stand before His cold? All these are small things for the almighty powe...
Ice — Great hail — stones, which are of an icy nature, and are cast forth out of the clouds, like morsels or fragments.
17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?