Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Who is covering the heavens with clouds, Who is preparing for the earth rain, Who is causing grass to spring up on mountains,
New American Standard Bible
Who
Who
King James Version
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Holman Bible
prepares rain for the earth,
and causes grass to grow on the hills.
International Standard Version
He shields the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth and making grass grow on the hills.
A Conservative Version
who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
American Standard Version
Who covereth the heavens with clouds, Who prepareth rain for the earth, Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Amplified
Who covers the heavens with clouds,
Who provides rain for the earth,
Who makes grass grow on the mountains.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
Who covereth the heavens with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains;
Julia Smith Translation
Covering the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth, causing the grass to spring up on the mountains.
King James 2000
Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
Lexham Expanded Bible
who covers [the] heavens with clouds, who provides rain for the earth, who causes grass to grow on the mountains.
Modern King James verseion
who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the mountains.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
which covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth, and maketh the grass to grow upon the mountains;
NET Bible
He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.
New Heart English Bible
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
The Emphasized Bible
Who covereth the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth, who causeth the mountains to sprout grass:
Webster
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
World English Bible
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
Themes
Clouds » Power and wisdom of God exhibited in forming
Clouds » Often cover the heavens
Mountains » Afforded pasturage
Topics
Interlinear
Kacah
Kuwn
'erets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 147:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Providence
7 Answer ye to Jehovah with thanksgiving, Sing ye to our God with a harp. 8 Who is covering the heavens with clouds, Who is preparing for the earth rain, Who is causing grass to spring up on mountains, 9 Giving to the beast its food, To the young of the ravens that call.
Cross References
Job 5:10
Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.
Psalm 104:13-14
Watering hills from His upper chambers, From the fruit of Thy works is the earth satisfied.
Genesis 9:14
and it hath come to pass (in My sending a cloud over the earth) that the bow hath been seen in the cloud,
1 Kings 18:44-45
And it cometh to pass, at the seventh, that he saith, 'Lo, a little thickness as the palm of a man is coming up out of the sea.' And he saith, 'Go up, say unto Ahab, 'Bind -- and go down, and the shower doth not restrain thee.'
Job 26:8-9
Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them.
Job 36:27-33
When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,
Job 38:24-27
Where is this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.
Psalm 65:9-13
Thou hast inspected the earth, and waterest it, Thou makest it very rich, the rivulet of God is full of water, Thou preparest their corn, When thus Thou dost prepare it,
Psalm 135:1
Praise ye Jah! Praise ye the name of Jehovah, Praise, ye servants of Jehovah,
Isaiah 5:6
And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And gone up have brier and thorn, And on the thick clouds I lay a charge, From raining upon it rain.
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou -- Thou hast done all these!
Joel 2:23
And ye sons of Zion, joy and rejoice, In Jehovah your God, For He hath given to you the Teacher for righteousness, And causeth to come down to you a shower, Sprinkling and gathered -- in the beginning.
Amos 5:7-8
Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,
Matthew 5:45
that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.
Acts 14:17
though, indeed, without witness He did not leave himself, doing good -- from heaven giving rains to us, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness;'
James 5:17-18
Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray -- not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months;