where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
Parallel translations
- WEB where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.
- KJV Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
- 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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Quick answer
In these trees the birds build their nests, and the stork makes its home in the cypress. God provides shelter for His creatures within His creation.
Overview
The great trees serve a purpose beyond their own grandeur, offering homes to birds and storks. God's design weaves provision and shelter into the natural order. Such attentive care reflects the Creator who notes even the sparrow's fall and provides a refuge for all who trust Him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 104:12The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.
- Lev 11:19the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
- Jer 8:7Even 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.
- Obad 1:4Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
- Jer 22:23O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”
- Ezek 31:6All 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.
- Matt 13:32Although 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.”
- Dan 4:21whose 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—
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