He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes.
For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth’; and the shower of rain, his heavy shower of rain,
“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?
fire and hail, snow and frost, stormy wind fulfilling his command!
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,