107 matching verse commentaries
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He giveth snow like wool: It is as soft as wool, and, like wool, it is a covering, and keeps the earth warm in the bitter frosts, and saves the plants from death: “He giveth snow like wool.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? I want you to notice how, in the olden days, good men felt God to be very near. They thought that all this was caused by God: “he giveth snow; he scattereth hoarfrost;” and they speak of “his ice, his cold.” It is a poor progress that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. You must often have been reminded of white ashes as you looked at the hoarfrost in the early morning.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He giveth snow like wool: — People say, nowadays, “It snows.” They said among the Hebrews, “HE giveth snow.” There seems to be a tendency to get further and further away from God in these very learned days. If this is all that science can do for us, — put God further off, — it shall be our injury rather than our benediction. “He giveth snow like...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. The Hebrews saw God in all the phenomena of nature; let us do the same. Let us attribute every snow-flake to the divine hand, and every breath of frost to the divine mouth.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 to hail stones, which sometimes fall like pieces of ice, and are very prejudicial to the fruits of the earth: this was one of the ten plagues of Egypt; and whereby also many of the Canaanites were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? None can stand before his heat; but when he withdraws the fire, and takes away the heat, the cold is equally destructive. It burns up as fast as fire would. “Who can stand before his cold?” If God be gone, if the Spirit of God be taken away from his church, or from any of you,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: Hailstones, like little pieces of bread, broken off and scattered abroad,- Psa_147:17. Who can stand before his cold? In all this, the Lord is really fattening the soil, and preparing food for man and beast in the coming spring and summer.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He casteth forth his ice like morsels :-The hailstones come like morsels, — like crumbs, that is the word, — like crumbs of ice; or, as the ice is formed upon the lake, it comes like crusts. Either way, “He casteth forth his ice like morsels:” — Psa_147:17. Who can stand before his cold. If God displays himself as fire, who can stand against his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: It is just as easy for him to send warm weather as to give us the chill of winter.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them,.... The snow, the hoar frost, and ice: this he does by a word of his, who can freeze the earth and waters, and thaw them at his pleasure; by ordering the sun to break forth with great heat, or rain to fall in great plenty; of both which Kimchi interprets his word; as well as by causing a warm wind to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them; he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. The frozen waters were hard as iron; the south wind toucheth them, and they flow again. What can God not do? The great God of nature is our God. Let us praise him. Oh, may our hearts be in a right key tonight to make music before him!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. That is the best news of all, that God reveals himself to his children. All he works in nature is eclipsed by what he does in grace.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: He has only to speak a word, and the ice, the snow, the hoarfrost, and every sign of winter will disappear, and we shall begin to swelter in the heats of summer. Psa_147:18. He causeth his wind to blow, That is all, — Psa_147:18. And the waters flow. Ice-saws and axes could not set free the frozen rivers...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them:- The icebergs float southward, and are melted. The rivers that had been held in chains of ice leap into liberty, and all at the word of the Lord: “He sendeth out his word, and melteth them.” Psa_147:18. He causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. “This is the result of the laws of nature.” So say...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. His own soft south wind comes, and the fetters of frost dissolve, and the waters flow. It is the Lord that doeth it all. He is not far from any of us; therefore let us not forget him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He showeth his word unto Jacob,.... From the things of nature and providence, the psalmist passes to the blessings of grace and goodness; for which the Lord is to be praised, particularly for his word and ordinances. The Targum interprets this of the words of the law; and indeed the law, or decalogue, was given only to the Israelites, the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. This is something greater than all his wonders in nature. The God of nature is the God of revelation. He hath not hidden his truth away from men. He hath come out of the eternal secrecies, and he hath showed his word, especially his Incarnate Word, unto his people. Let his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statues and his judgments unto Israel. And we have come into the place of Jacob and Israel, even we who have believed; for Abraham is the father of believers, and we are his spiritual seed according to the promise. So we have to bless God that he has showed unto us his word, his statutes and his judgments.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He showeth his word unto Jacob, — Observe that, when God’s people know God’s Word, it is as much the work of God as when the waters are loosed from their bands of ice. Psa_147:19. His statutes and his judgments unto Israel. The Lord does it according to his own sovereign will.