Psalms Chapter 104 verse 17 Holy Bible
Where the birds make their nests: As for the stork, the fir-trees are her house.
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Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.
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Where the birds make their nests; [as for] the stork, the fir trees are her house.
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Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
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Where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the fir trees.
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Where birds do make nests, The stork -- the firs `are' her house.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - Wherein the birds make their nests (comp. above, ver. 10). As for the stork, the fir trees are her house. Again, God's care for the animal creation is in the psalmist's mind. As the grass is "caused to grow for the cattle" (ver. 14), so trees - even the grandest - are partly intended for the birds.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Stork.--The LXX. give "heron," but Dr. Tristram has shown that there is no need to prefer "heron" here, on account of "the nesting in fir trees," since if near its feeding-grounds the stork readily selects a fir as the tallest and most convenient tree for its nest (Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 244)."The eagle and the storkOn cliffs and cedar-tops their eyries build."--MILTON.
