Psalm 104:17 “where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cyp…”

Psalm 104:17

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

That ye birdes may make their nestes there: the storke dwelleth in the firre trees.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Where birds do make nests, The stork — the firs [are] her house.

Bible in Basic English

Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.

.mt-body { max-height: none !important; -webkit-mask-image: none !important; mask-image: none !important; } .mt-bar { display: none !important; } .o-trans::after { display: block !important; }

Cross references

“the birds”

Psalm 104:12 Jeremiah 22:23 Ezekiel 31:6 Daniel 4:21 Obadiah 1:4 Matthew 13:32

Psalm 104:12 · BSB

The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.

Jeremiah 22:23 · BSB

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 · BSB

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 · BSB

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 · BSB

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 · BSB

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.”

“as for”

Leviticus 11:19 Jeremiah 8:7

Leviticus 11:19 · BSB

the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

Jeremiah 8:7 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,

18The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.

Read Psalm 104