PSA 147:17 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) He sends out his hail like crumbs brushed off a table.
⇔ Who can stand before his cold?

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT He sends out his hail like crumbs,
⇔ who can stand before his cold?

UST He hurls down hail like small stones.
⇔ When he makes it cold, no one can stand outside.

BSB He casts forth His hail like pebbles.[fn]
⇔ Who can withstand His icy blast?

147:17 Or like crumbs or like morsels

MSB (Same as BSB above including footnotes)

OEB He casts forth his ice like morsels:
⇔ who can stand before his cold?

WEBBE He hurls down his hail like pebbles.
⇔ Who can stand before his cold?

WMBB (Same as above)

NET He throws his hailstones like crumbs.
⇔ Who can withstand the cold wind he sends?

LSV Casting forth His ice like morsels,
Who stands before His cold?

FBV He throws hail like stones.[fn] Who can stand the cold he sends?

147:17 “Stones”: literally, “pieces of bread.”

T4T He sends hail down like ◄pebbles/tiny stones►;
⇔ when that happens, ◄it is very difficult to endure because the air becomes very cold./who can endure because the air becomes very cold?► [RHQ]

LEB • he throws his hail like crumbs.
• Who can stand before his cold?[fn]

147:? With slight alteration of the Hebrew, the line might read “before his cold water stands”

BBE He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.

Moff he sends an order, and they melt;
⇔ once he makes the wind blow,
⇔ then the waters flow.

JPS He casteth forth His ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold?

ASV He casteth forth his ice like morsels:
⇔ Who can stand before his cold?

DRA No DRA PSA 147:17 verse available

YLT Casting forth His ice like morsels, Before His cold who doth stand?

Drby He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

RV He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
(He casteth/casts/throws forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?)

SLT Casting his ice as morsels: before his cold who shall stand?

Wbstr He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

KJB-1769 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
(He casteth/casts/throws forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?)

KJB-1611 He casteth forth his yce like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
(He casteth/casts/throws forth his yce like morsels: who can stand before his cold?)

Bshps He casteth foorth his yse lyke fragmentes: who is able to abide his frost?
(He casteth/casts/throws forth his yse like fragments: who is able to abide his frost?)

Gnva He casteth foorth his yce like morsels: who can abide the colde thereof?
(He casteth/casts/throws forth his yce like morsels: who can abide the cold thereof?)

Cvdl He casteth forth his yse like morsels, who is able to abyde his frost?
(He casteth/casts/throws forth his yse like morsels, who is able to abide his frost?)

Wycl No Wycl PSA 147:17 verse available

Luth Er wirft seine Schloßen wie Bissen; wer kann bleiben vor seinem Frost?
(He throws his castles as/like bite(n); who can remain/stay before/in_front_of his Frost?)

ClVg No ClVg PSA 147:17 verse available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

קַֽרְח֣⁠וֹ כְ⁠פִתִּ֑ים

ice_of,his (Some words not found in UHB: hurls_down ice_of,his like,crumbs to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before coldness_of,his who? stand )

The psalmist compares hail to crumbs to emphasize that the hailstones are small pieces. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make the point of comparison explicit. Alternate translation: [his hailstones like small crumbs]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

לִ⁠פְנֵ֥י קָ֝רָת֗⁠וֹ מִ֣י יַעֲמֹֽד

to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before coldness_of,his who? stand

The psalmist uses a rhetorical question to emphasize that no one can endure God’s cold. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this question as a statement or an exclamation. Alternate translation: [no one can stand in such cold!] or [no one can endure when he makes it so cold.]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

לִ⁠פְנֵ֥י קָ֝רָת֗⁠וֹ

to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before coldness_of,his

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of cold, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [in his freezing weather] or [when he makes it freeze]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

לִ⁠פְנֵ֥י קָ֝רָת֗⁠וֹ

to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before coldness_of,his

Here, the face of represents the presence or force of something. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [when he sends his cold] or [outside in his freezing cold]

Parallel PSA 147:17