Psalms 147:16

He giveth snow like wool,.... For colour as white as wool; so the Targum and Kimchi: and for the manner of its falling, lightly and gently as a lock of wool; which for its thinness and fineness it…

He giveth snow like wool - He covers the earth with snow, so that it seems to have a clothing of wool. Compare the notes at Job 37:6 : “For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth.” He scattereth…

Jerusalem, and Zion, the holy city, the holy hill, are here called upon to praise God, Psa 147:12. For where should praise be offered up to God but where his altar is? Where may we expect that glory…

"Snow must always have been rare in Central and Southern Palestine," and "frost is very rare at Jerusalem." Tristram, Nat. Hist. of Bible, p. 28. They would therefore be more striking phenomena than…