Psalm 147:17

Verse 17. He casteth forth his ice like morsels. Or, shivers of bread. It is a worthy saying of one from this text, -- The ice is bread, the rain is drink, the snow is wool, the frost a fire to the earth, causing it inwardly to glow with heat; teaching us what to do for God's poor. --John Trapp.

Verse 17. He casteth forth his ice like morsels. The word here translated "morsels", means, in most of the places where it occurs in the Bible, pieces of bread, exactly the LXX ywmoj; for this very ice, this wintry cold, is profitable to the earth, to fit it for bearing future harvests, and thus it matures the morsels of bread which man will yet win from the soil in due season. --Genebrardus, in Neale and Littledale.

Verse 17. Morsels. Or, crumbs. Genesis 18:5 Judges 19:5 . Doubtless the allusion is to hail. --A.S. Aglen.

Verse 17. "It is extremely severe", said his sister to Archbishop Leighton one day, speaking of the season. The good man only said in reply, "But thou, O God, hast made summer and winter." --From J.J. Pearson's Life of Archbishop Leighton, 1830.