Psalms 104:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

Psalms 104:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 104:12
By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
Leviticus 11:19
And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
Jeremiah 22:23
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
Ezekiel 31:6
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Jeremiah 8:7
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

Topics

Animals Atheism Attributes of God Birds Blessing Clean and Unclean Animals Creation God

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-18)

Having given glory to God as the powerful protector of this earth, in saving it from being deluged, here he comes to acknowledge him as its bountiful benefactor, who provides conveniences for all the creatures. I. He provides fresh water for their drink: He sends the springs into the valleys, Ps. 104:10. There is water enough indeed in the sea, that is, enough to drown us, but not one drop to refr…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

16-19. God’s care of even wild animals and uncultivated parts of the earth.