Psalm 147:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ He covers the heavens with clouds, prepares rain for the earth, makes grass grow on the hills.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who makes grass to grow on the mountains.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Who covereth the heavens with clouds, Who prepareth rain for the earth, Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

Common English Bible

⁸ God covers the skies with clouds; God makes rain for the earth; God makes the mountains sprout green grass.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ He announces his word to Jacob, his justices and his judgments to Israel.

Psalm 147:8 Cross References

Genesis 9:14

When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,

Job 5:10

He gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields;

Psalm 135:1

Praise the Lord! Praise the name of the Lord; give praise, O servants of the Lord,

Proverbs 27:25

When the grass is gone, and new growth appears, and the herbage of the mountains is gathered,

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any idols of the nations bring rain, or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for it is you who do all this.

Joel 2:23

O children of Zion, be glad, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the later rain, as before.

Matthew 5:45

so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

Acts 14:17

yet he has not left himself without a witness in doing good, giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons and filling you with food and your hearts with joy.”