19 He also pours out frost on the earth like salt. When it is freezes, it has points like thorns. (WEB) 20 The cold north wind blows and ice freezes on the water. It settles on every pool of water. The water puts it on like it was a breastplate. (WEB) 21 It will devour the mountains, burn up the wilderness, and consume the green grass like fire. (WEB)
Sirach 43:19–21
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Job 37:9–11
9 The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds. 10 By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen. 11 He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
Job 38:29–31
29 From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven, 30 when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen? 31 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
Psalms 147:16–18
16 He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes; 17 He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast? 18 He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.
Sirach 43:12–14
12 It encircles the sky with its glorious circle. The hands of the Most High have stretched it out. (WEB) 13 By his commandment, he makes the snow fall and swiftly sends the lightnings of his judgment. (WEB) 14 Therefore the storehouses are opened, and clouds fly out like birds. (WEB)
Job 41:20–22
20 Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds. 21 His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth. 22 Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
2 Esdras 15:40–42
40 Great and mighty clouds, full of wrath, will be lifted up with the storm, that they may destroy all the earth and those who dwell in it. They will pour out over every high and lofty one a terrible storm, (WEB) 41 fire, hail, flying swords, and many waters, that all pla… (WEB)
2 Esdras 15:22–24
22 “My right hand won’t spare the sinners, and my sword won’t cease over those who shed innocent blood on the earth. (WEB) 23 A fire has gone out from his wrath and has consumed the foundations of the earth and the sinners, like burnt straw. (WEB) 24 Woe to those who sin and don’t… (WEB)
Psalms 78:46–48
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust. 47 He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet. 48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
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