John Trapp on Psalms 147:8-9

Verſ. 8 Who covereth the Heaven with clouds] as 1 King. 18.45. and ſtill, as there is need. It is not by nature, or hap-hazard, as men are apt to dream, and are therefore ſo often told this truth, and admoniſhed, that the ſecond cauſes do but ſerve the divine providence, in theſe common occurrents.

Who prepareth rain for the earth] Rain (which is nothing elſe but the flux of a moiſt cloud, out of the middle Region of the air) as it commeth by a decree of God, Job 28.26. ſo it is wholly at his diſpoſe when and where it ſhall fall even to a drop, Amos 4.7.

Verſ. 8 Hee giveth to the beaſt his food] See Job 39.3. Pſal. 104.27, 28. with the Notes.

And to the young Ravens which cry] By ſending flyes into their mouths as they cry, ſay the Rabbines: or by a certain moiſt air, as Euthymius: or by ſmall worms put into their mouths, mag[illegible: 2 letters] providentia ſymbol[illegible: 1 letter], though they bee ſuch contemptible creatures and very carnivorous, by reaſon of the vehemency of naturall heat in them, ſo that a little will not ſatisfie them, yet God feedeth them. See more on