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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 147 This psalm is thought to be written by David, and according to Theodoret predicts the return of the Jews from Babylon, and the rebuilding of Jerusalem by Zerubbabel, which seems to be grounded on Psalms 147:2; though the words there agree well enough with the times of David; hence the title in the Septuagint, Ethiopic, Arabic, and Syriac versions, and Apollinarius, is...
John Gill
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 also resembles. Hence the ancients used to call snow εριωδεςυδωρ, "woolly water" (t); and Martial (u) gives it the name of "densum veilus aquarum", "a thick fleece of waters": so another poet (w) calls...
Matthew Henry
This is another psalm of praise. Some think it was penned after the return of the Jews from their captivity; but it is so much of a piece with Ps. cxlv. that I rather think it was penned by David, and what is said (ver. 2, 13) may well enough be applied to the first building and fortifying of Jerusalem in his time, and the gathering in of those that had been out-casts in Saul's time. The...
Charles H. Spurgeon
He giveth snow like wool: Men say, “it” snows; but what “it” is it that snows? The Psalmist rightly says of the Lord, “HE giveth snow.” They say that according to the condition of the atmosphere, snow is produced; but the believer says, “He giveth snow like wool.” It is not only like wool for whiteness; but it is like it for the warmth which it gives. Psa_147:16. He scattereth the hoar frost like...
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.”
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 philosophers have made, to try to get us farther off...
Charles H. Spurgeon
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. He giveth snow like wool: Light and fleecy, it covers the plants, and protects them from the cold; the snow is a kind of garment to them from the frost.
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.
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 wool.” The flakes are like the fleece, and fall...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee. He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. Our King’s warrant runs everywhere, all over the world. He has universal power in nature, in...
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.