He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
God himself gives the snow and scatters the hoarfrost, spreading snow white and covering like wool and frost fine and scattered like ashes. Snow and frost do not come from nature acting by its own power, but from his power continually exercised. He brings them by working through the laws of nature, sustaining and directing the elements and using those laws as his servants, thereby upholding and ordering the earth in ongoing care. In this giving and scattering he shows his power and greatness, leaving testimony in creation of his active care.
Language and Imagery
God himself gives the snow and scatters the hoarfrost. It is he who actively provides them and governs them as part of his continuing work in caring for the earth and directing its processes. They are not products of nature acting by its own inherent or independent power.
Snow is likened to wool, and hoarfrost to ashes. The comparison presents snow in its whiteness and covering like wool. It presents hoarfrost in the way it is spread and scattered like ashes. God is shown causing snow to fall and frost to spread under his direct, continuing agency.
God's Active Rule
Snow and hoarfrost are his own continual doing, not products turned out by nature on its own inherent or independent power. He gives the snow and scatters the frost by power still exercised, causing the snow to fall and the frost to spread. The acts belong to him rather than to independent laws operating by themselves.
He brings them about by working continually through the laws of nature, sustaining and directing the elements to their effects. Those laws are his servants and instruments, upheld and ordered and kept in motion by him to produce the appointed results. Nature does not run on by itself apart from him, but is used by him in his ongoing operation.
This is government and care for the earth, a continuing work of directing its processes. He upholds creation, orders it, and keeps it in motion rather than leaving it to operate independently. Snow and frost come by his power as part of that continuing care and rule over what he has made.
In giving snow and spreading hoarfrost he displays his power and greatness in his works of creation. Those works testify of him and help to make his power understood. Their appearance is evidence of his active care and power at work in nature.
God himself gives the snow and scatters the hoarfrost, spreading snow white and covering like wool and frost fine and scattered like ashes.
Snow and frost do not come from nature acting by its own power, but from his power continually exercised.
He brings them by working through the laws of nature, sustaining and directing the elements and using those laws as his servants, thereby upholding and ordering the earth in ongoing care.
In this giving and scattering he shows his power and greatness, leaving testimony in creation of his active care.
Language and Imagery
God himself gives the snow and scatters the hoarfrost. It is he who actively provides them and governs them as part of his continuing work in caring for the earth and directing its processes. They are not products of nature acting by its own inherent or independent power.
Snow is likened to wool, and hoarfrost to ashes. The comparison presents snow in its whiteness and covering like wool. It presents hoarfrost in the way it is spread and scattered like ashes. God is shown causing snow to fall and frost to spread under his direct, continuing agency.
God's Active Rule
Snow and hoarfrost are his own continual doing, not products turned out by nature on its own inherent or independent power. He gives the snow and scatters the frost by power still exercised, causing the snow to fall and the frost to spread. The acts belong to him rather than to independent laws operating by themselves.
He brings them about by working continually through the laws of nature, sustaining and directing the elements to their effects. Those laws are his servants and instruments, upheld and ordered and kept in motion by him to produce the appointed results. Nature does not run on by itself apart from him, but is used by him in his ongoing operation.
This is government and care for the earth, a continuing work of directing its processes. He upholds creation, orders it, and keeps it in motion rather than leaving it to operate independently. Snow and frost come by his power as part of that continuing care and rule over what he has made.
In giving snow and spreading hoarfrost he displays his power and greatness in his works of creation. Those works testify of him and help to make his power understood. Their appearance is evidence of his active care and power at work in nature.