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Psalms 104:17
where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist speaks to God and the worshiping community while cataloging creation's habitats, positioning this observation between descriptions of forested slopes and mountainous refuges to show how different species occupy designated environments.
The words — חֲ֝סִידָ֗ה (cha.si.Dah) means stork, and יְקַנֵּ֑נוּ (ye.ka.Ne.nu) means they make nests, identifying the specific nesting sites for distinct creatures.
The thread — The stork appears in Leviticus 11:19 as a ritually unclean bird, in Jeremiah 8:7 as a creature that recognizes migratory seasons, and Psalms 104:12 alongside other nesting birds to reinforce the theme of created order.
Why it lands — The text demands the reader observe that God assigns precise habitats to different animals, demonstrating deliberate provision rather than accidental distribution.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Cross-references
- Psalms 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 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.
- 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.”