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Psalm 147:18

He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

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.
19He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
20He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise the LORD!
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Snow and hail yield to God's word, turning a familiar thaw into a glimpse of his rule over what no person can command.

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Psalm 147:15He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly.Both verses describe God sending his word to the earth, with the thaw showing a concrete result of his command.
Psalm 33:9For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.God's speech accomplishes what he commands in both passages: what he speaks takes effect.
Job 37:10By the breath of God, ice is given, and the width of the waters is frozen.Both passages place water under God's rule: Job describes its freezing, while the psalm describes its thaw.
Job 6:16–17Ice and snow connect these passages, though the supplied words from Job describe frozen conditions without naming God's command.
Psalm 107:20He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.Both passages describe God sending his word with an effect: melting frozen water here, and healing people in Psalm 107.
Job 37:17You whose clothing is warm when the earth is still by reason of the south wind?Wind and weather connect these passages: Job describes warmth and stillness, while the psalm describes wind blowing and waters flowing.
Exodus 15:10You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.God directs wind and water in both passages: here in a thaw, and in Exodus in the drowning of people at sea.
Jeremiah 51:16When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the …Both passages connect God's speech with water and describe him directing the wind.
Amos 4:13For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places …Amos names God as the creator of the wind; the psalm describes him causing his wind to blow.
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Encouragement

The cold and the thaw both belong to God's rule. His word reaches the frozen ground, and the water flows at his command.

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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).