Good News Translation
He sends the cold north wind blowing and the water hardens into ice; every lake and pond freezes over, putting on a coat of icy armor.

New Revised Standard Version
The cold north wind blows, and ice freezes on the water; it settles on every pool of water, and the water puts it on like a breastplate.

Contemporary English Version
A freezing north wind makes the surface of every pond hard as armor.

New American Bible
He sends cold northern blasts that harden the ponds like solid ground, Spreads a crust over every body of water, and clothes each pool with a coat of armor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The eye admireth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the shower thereof.

The eye admireth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the shower thereof.

Sirach 43:18
The noise of his thunder shall strike the earth, so doth the northern storm, and the whirlwind:

Sirach 43:19
And as the birds lighting upon the earth, he scattereth snow, and the falling thereof, is as the coming down of locusts.

Sirach 43:21
He shall pour frost as salt upon the earth: and when it freezeth, it shall become like the tops of thistles.

Sirach 43:22
The cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into crystal; upon every gathering together of waters it shall rest, and shall clothe the waters as a breastplate.