Translated indirectly it can be “God orders the snow to fall on the ground.” Since the snow can only fall earthward, it is sufficient to say, for example, “God orders the snow to fall” or “God orders it to snow.” In languages where snow is unknown, it may be necessary to use a borrowed word or to substitute something like frost, hail, or mist. And to the shower and the rain, ‘Be strong’ is literally “shower or rain and shower of rains of his strength.” RSV gives the literal form in its footnote and