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The noise of the thunder maketh the earth to tremble: so doth the northern storm and the whirlwind: as birds flying he scattereth the snow, and the falling down thereof is as the lighting of grasshoppers:
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The eye marvelleth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the raining of it.
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The hoarfrost also as salt he poureth on the earth, and being congealed, it lieth on the top of sharp stakes.
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When the cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into ice, it abideth upon every gathering together of water, and clotheth the water as with a breastplate.
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It devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the grass as fire.
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A present remedy of all is a mist coming speedily, a dew coming after heat refresheth.
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By his counsel he appeaseth the deep, and planteth islands therein.
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They that sail on the sea tell of the danger thereof; and when we hear it with our ears, we marvel thereat.
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For therein be strange and wondrous works, variety of all kinds of beasts and whales created.
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By him the end of them hath prosperous success, and by his word all things consist.
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We may speak much, and yet come short: wherefore in sum, he is all.