Psalms Chapter 104 verse 18 Holy Bible
The high mountains are for the wild goats; The rocks are a refuge for the conies.
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The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.
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The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs, a refuge for the rock-badgers.
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The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
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The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
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The high hills `are' for wild goats, Rocks `are' a refuge for conies,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats. Even the desolate ranges of the higher mountains are designed by God for the good of his creatures. They furnish a refuge for the ibex, or wild goat, when the hunter presses ca him; and, if they cannot give him food, give him safety. And the rocks for the conies; rather, for the marmots. Marmots still inhabit Palestine, though they are rarely seen; "conies," i.e. rabbits do not. The marmots are "a feeble folk, that make their houses in the rocks" (Proverbs 30:26).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Wild goats.--Heb., climbers, and so at home on the "high hills." (See 1Samuel 24:2, "the rocks of the wild goats.") "This animal, which is a relation of the Swiss ibex or steinbock, is now called the beden or jaela "(Bible Educator, II., 104).Conies.--Heb., sh?phan, i.e., "hider." (Comp. Leviticus 11:5, and Bible Educator, II., 201.) Naturalists know it as the hyrax Syriacus. The LXX., Vulg., and Aquila have "hedgehogs."
