Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 147:17

17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold ?

Either, 1. pieces of ice, which God may be said to cast forth or to cast down, because he sendeth it, and oft-times suddenly: or, 2. great hail-stones, which are of an icy nature and substance, and which are very properly cast forth or cast down out of the clouds, and that like morsels or fragments, the particles being congealed in them.

The cold which he sometimes sends into the air is so sharp, that it would be intolerable, if men did not defend themselves from it by houses, cloaths, fire, &c.