Psalms 104:17 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 104:17

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

Where birds do make nests, The stork--the firs are her house.

DBT

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

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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10 verses on the floor

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.
Matthew 8:20
And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Daniel 4:21
Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:
Matthew 13:32
Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

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); it should seem as if nature had an eye to this in planting the cedars of Lebanon, that they might be receptacles for the birds. Those that fly heavenward shall not want resting-places. The stork is particularly mentioned; the fir-trees, which are very high, are her house, her castle.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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