Psalm 104:17

Translations

Modern

…where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.

Traditional

Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

Literal

…where in the birds make their nests; the stork—the cypresses are her house.

Latin

…illic passeres nidificabunt: herodii domus dux est eorum.

Original

Hebrew

English

…where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.

Notes

Psalms 104:17–18

The storks migrated from northern Europe and stayed in Palestine during the winter.
rock badgers: These animals are about the size of a rabbit and live in rocky areas.

Psalms 104:11–18

The psalmist celebrates animal, plant, and human life, as well as the Lord’s abundant provision for all of it (Genesis 1:9–30).

Psalms 104:1–35

This creation hymn (see also Psalms 8, 33, 145) praises God's goodness and greatness. The psalmist thinks about the current world, the original creation, and a future new creation. He views both creations as wonderfully and wisely made (compare Psalm 139:14), as the work of the Lord's Spirit (104:30; Genesis 1:2; 2 Corinthians 3:6).

Theme notes and profiles

David Beauty in Nature Blessing The Creator-King

Related verses

Psalm 104:12
The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.
Leviticus 11:19
…the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
Jeremiah 22:23
O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”
Ezekiel 31:6
All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.
Daniel 4:21
…whose foliage was beautiful and whose fruit was abundant, providing food for all, under which the beasts of the field lived, and in whose branches the birds of the air nested—
Obadiah 1:4
Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
Matthew 13:32
Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
Jeremiah 8:7
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

Glossary

David Foreordination Gratitude Music New Creation, New Creature Pine Tree Psalms, Book of Stork

Topics

Birds: Make Their Nests in Trees Birds: Nests of Birds: Unclean: Stork Blessing: Temporal, from God God: Providence of God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Stork: Nest of, in Fir Trees Trees: Fir

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