Other translations
New Catholic Bible
He scatters frost over the earth like salt, and icicles form like pointed thorns.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
He pours frost over the earth like salt, and icicles form like pointed thorns.
Good News Translation®
He sprinkles frost over the ground like salt, and it freezes into thorny flowers of ice.
Wycliffe Bible
He shall shed out frost as salt on the earth; and while the wind bloweth, it shall be made as (the) cops (or the tops) of a briar. [Frost as salt he shall pour out upon the earth; and while he bloweth, he (or it) shall be made as the cops (or the tops) of the bramble(bush).]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
He pours the hoarfrost upon the earth like salt, and when it freezes, it becomes pointed thorns.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
He pours frost over the earth like salt, and icicles form like pointed thorns.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
He pours frost over the earth like salt, and icicles form like pointed thorns.
Common English Bible © 2011
He pours frost, like salt, upon the earth, and when it freezes it has pointy thorns.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
He scatters frost like salt; it shines like blossoms on the thornbush.
Revised Standard Version
He pours the hoarfrost upon the earth like salt, and when it freezes, it becomes pointed thorns.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
He pours frost over the earth like salt, and icicles form like pointed thorns.