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Psalm 147:16

He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.

14He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
15He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly.
16He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.
17He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?
18He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
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Snow like wool and frost like ashes turn a familiar winter scene into a reason for wonder at God's rule over the earth.

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Where else Scripture says this

6 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Job 37:6For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.Both passages name God as the one responsible for snowfall: he gives snow in the psalm and commands it in Job.
Job 38:29Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?Both passages draw attention to frost and its source, with the psalm naming God as the one who scatters it.
Psalm 148:8lightning and hail, snow and clouds, stormy wind, fulfilling his word,Both psalms describe God's rule over weather, naming snow among the things he gives or directs by his word.
Isaiah 55:10For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower …Both passages describe snow coming to the earth; Isaiah adds its part in watering the ground and feeding people.
Exodus 16:14When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.Frost links the two descriptions: it resembles ashes in the psalm and helps describe the small round thing in Exodus.
Job 37:9–10Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.Both describe cold weather: the psalm speaks of snow and frost, while Job names the north as the source of cold.
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Encouragement

The cold has a place in this psalm's praise. Snow and frost, down to their textures, belong to the world God governs.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).