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Psalms 147:16
He giveth snow like wool, the snowflakes coming down like small particles of wool; He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes, all objects being powdered with the congealed dew or fog.
He giveth snow like wool, the snowflakes coming down like small particles of wool; He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes, all objects being powdered with the congealed dew or fog.
Verse Psalms 147:16. _HE GIVETH SNOW LIKE WOOL_] Falling down in large flakes; and in this state nothing in nature has a nearer resemblance to fine white _wool_. _SCATTERETH THE HOAR FROST LIKE ASHES...
HE GIVETH SNOW LIKE WOOL - He covers the earth with snow, so that it seems to have a clothing of wool. Compare the notes at Job 37:6 : “For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth.” HE SCATTERETH...
PSALM 144-150 THE HALLELUJAH CHORUS The five Psalms with which this marvellous book closeth are all Psalms of praise. The word “praise” is found in the Hebrew thirty-seven times. Each one of these Ps...
CXLVII. The LXX, perhaps rightly, divides the Ps. into two, Psalms 147:1 and Psalms 147:12. PSALMS 147:1. An invitation to praise Yahweh for His almighty power and His kindness to Israel. Observe how...
A reminiscence of Isaiah 55:10-11. As in Psalms 107:20 the Word or command of God is personified. The word for _commandment_(lit. -saying") is cognate with the verb _spake_in Psalms 33:9;...
"Snow must always have been rare in Central and Southern Palestine," and "frost is very rare at Jerusalem." Tristram, _Nat. Hist. of Bible_, p. 28. They would therefore be more striking phenomena than...
Zion is summoned to praise Jehovah for the blessings of peace and prosperity. The Lord of Nature is He Who has endowed Israel with unique privileges....
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 cold prove deadly to many. Jac. de Vitriaco informs us,...
PSALMS 147 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Praise for the Restoration of Jerusalem and for Israel's Preeminence: with Grateful Recognition of Rain and of Spring. ANALYSIS After the Repetition and Expansion of th...
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. HE GIVETH SNOW LIKE WOOL: HE SCATTERETH THE HOAR-FROST LIKE ASHES. HE CASTETH FORTH HIS ICE LIKE MORSELS: WHO CAN STAND BEFORE HIS...
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 animal world, and (4) in the changing seasons....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD’S LOVE AND *POWER PSALMS 147 THE 2ND *HALLELUJAH PSALM Jesus said, "If God makes the grass green (so that it looks right), how much more will
LIKE WOOL. — Both in whiteness and fleecy texture. “The snow falls in large flakes, equal in size to a walnut, and has more resemblance to locks of wool than it has in our country” (Niven, _Biblical A...
הַ נֹּתֵ֣ן שֶׁ֣לֶג כַּ † צָּ֑מֶר כְּ֝פֹ֗ור...
Psalms 147:1 THE threefold calls to praise Jehovah (Psalms 147:1, Psalms 147:7, Psalms 147:12) divide this psalm into three parts, the two fo
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_ justify the application of the psalm to the spiritual cond...
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 activity in restoring His people (vv. Psa 147:2-6)....
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, Jesus visits his people, Isaiah 27:3. And how are...
In Psalms 147 the saints take their place now in Jerusalem and Zion to say what He is. He is their God; He builds up Jerusalem and gathers together the outcasts of Israel, healing the broken in heart...
HE GIVETH SNOW LIKE WOOL,.... For colour as white as wool; so the Targum and Kimchi: and for the manner of its falling, lightly and gently as a lock of wool; which for its thinness and fineness it als...
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. Ver. 16. _He giveth snow like wool_] For whiteness, lightness, plenty, softness, warmth; for snow, though it be very cold, yet by kee...
_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 and keeping it warm, and so promoting its fruitfulne...
12-20 The church, like Jerusalem of old, built up and preserved by the wisdom, power, and goodness of God, is exhorted to praise him for all the benefits and blessings vouchsafed to her; and these ar...
SNOW LIKE WOOL; not only in colour, and shape, and softness, but also in use, keeping the fruits of the earth warm. HOAR-FROST like ashes; in colour and smallness of parts, as also in its burning qual...
Psalms 147:16 gives H5414 (H8802) snow H7950 wool H6785 scatters H6340 (H8762) frost H3713 ashes H665...
Psalms 147:16 I. Look, first, at the beauty of the snow. It makes a spiritual world of this dull, dark earth of ours; and the fields that seemed fit only for the growth of man's food and the tread of...
This is one of the Hallelujah Psalms; it begins and ends with «Praise ye the LORD.» May our hearts be in tune, that we may praise the Lord while we read these words of praise! Psalms 147:1. _Praise y...
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 ye the Lord.» «It is good: «it is right, it is accepta...
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 with Hallelujah! Psalms 147:1. For it is good to sing...
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 others do, with «Hallelujah.» Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye...
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 to say, it is a thing that ought to be done, it is a r...
CONTENTS: A call to praise God. The greatness and condescending goodness of the Lord celebrated. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Praise is comely it becomes us as reasonable creatures on account of God...
This psalm, like the preseding, is without title in the Hebrew or Chaldee; but is ascribed by the Versions to Haggai and Zechariah. REFLECTIONS. The people are here exhorted to praise God for all th...
_He hath strengthened the bars of thy gates._ PIETY EXULTING IN DIVINE GOODNESS I. In the general prosperity of society. He recognizes the good hand of God-- 1. In the rebuilding of the city (verse...
_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 bourn the earth had been covered to a considerable depth...
ONE OF GOD'S WORKMEN He scattereth the hoar frost like ashes. Psalms 147:16. Today we are going to speak about someone whom we all know, who is indeed one of our very good friends though perhaps the...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 147:1. Here the praise is focused on gratitude for some great work of “building up Jerusalem” (or rebuilding it after the exile), and for the Creator who sustains his creati...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 147:12 Jerusalem, representing all of God’s people, should PRAISE THE LORD. He alone provides security and prosperity (vv....
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 celebrates God’s almighty and gracious rule over His pe...
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 set up, and the gates and bars put in their places (see Ps...
Praise ye the LORD [or hallelujah]: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; it's pleasant; praise is comely [or desirable, beautiful]. The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the ou...
Isaiah 55:10; Job 37:10; Job 37:6; Job 37:9; Job 38:29;...
Like wool — Not only in colour and shape, and softness, but also in use, keeping the fruits of the earth warm. Ashes — In colour and smallness of parts, as also in its burning quality....