Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Parallel translations
- WEB where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.
- 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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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
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- Ps 104:12By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
- Lev 11:19And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
- Jer 8:7Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
- Obad 1:4Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
- Jer 22:23O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
- Ezek 31:6All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
- Matt 13:32Which 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.
- Dan 4:21Whose 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:
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