Psalms 147:8
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Psalms 147:8 in other translations
| BSB | who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills. |
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| WEB | who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains. |
| ASV | Who covereth the heavens with clouds, Who prepareth rain for the earth, Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. |
| YLT | Who is covering the heavens with clouds, Who is preparing for the earth rain, Who is causing grass to spring up on mountains, |
| DARBY | Who covereth the heavens with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains; |
| BBE | By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains. |
| Webster | Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. |
What does Psalms 147:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 147:7-9
7-9. His providence supplies bountifully the wild animals in their mountain homes. Sing ... Lord--literally, "Answer the Lord," that is, in grateful praise to His goodness, thus declared in His acts.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 147:1-11
Praising God is work that is its own wages. It is comely; it becomes us as reasonable creatures, much more as people in covenant with God. He gathers outcast sinners by his grace, and will bring them into his holy habitation. To those whom God heals with the consolations of his Spirit, he speaks peace, assures them their sins are pardoned. And for this, let others praise him also. Man's knowledge is soon ended; but…
Psalms 147:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 147:8
- Job 5:10
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
- Psalms 65:9-13
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof. Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. …
- Genesis 9:14
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
- Job 26:8-9
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
- Acts 14:17
Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
- Matthew 5:45
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
- Isaiah 5:6
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
- James 5:17-18
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
- Joel 2:23
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
- 1 Kings 18:44-45
And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
- Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
- Job 36:27-33
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. …
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Psalms 147:7
Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
- Psalms 147:8
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
- Psalms 147:9
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Psalms 147:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El es el que cubre los cielos de nubes, el que prepara la lluvia para la tierra, el que hace á los montes producir hierba. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Qui couvre de nuages les cieux, qui prépare la pluie pour la terre, qui fait germer l’herbe sur les montagnes; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ihm, der die Himmel mit Wolken bedeckt, der Regen bereitet für die Erde, der Gras sprossen läßt auf den Bergen; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Qui annuntiat verbum suum Jacob, justitias et judicia sua Israël. |