where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.
Parallel translations
- KJV Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
- BSB where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
- NKJV Where the birds make their nests; The stork has her home in the fir trees.
- NASB Where the birds build their nests, And the stork, whose home is the juniper trees.
- NLT There the birds make their nests, and the storks make their homes in the cypresses.
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- Ps 104:12The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.
- Lev 11:19the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
- Jer 22:23Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!
- Ezek 31:6All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth to their young; and all great nations lived under its shadow.
- Dan 4:21whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit much, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:
- Obad 1:4Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
- Matt 13:32which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”
- Jer 8:7Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.
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