Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

wherein the birds make their nests; and the fir trees are a dwelling for the stork.

New American Standard Bible

Where the birds build their nests,
And the stork, whose home is the fir trees.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

There the birds make their nests;
the stork makes its home in the pine trees.

International Standard Version

the birds build their nests there, and the heron builds its nest among the evergreen.

A Conservative Version

where the birds make their nests. As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Where there the sparrows will nest: the stork, the cypresses her house.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

where birds make [their] nest. [The] stork [has] its home in [the] fir trees.

Modern King James verseion

where the birds make their nests; the fir trees are the house of the stork.

NET Bible

where the birds make nests, near the evergreens in which the herons live.

New Heart English Bible

where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the fir trees.

The Emphasized Bible

Where the birds build their nests, The stork, in the fir-trees, hath her house;

Webster

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

World English Bible

where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the fir trees.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Where the birds
צפּר צפּור 
Tsippowr 
Usage: 40

קנן 
Qanan 
Usage: 5

as for the stork
חסידה 
Chaciydah 
Usage: 6

the fir trees
בּרושׁ 
B@rowsh 
Usage: 20

References

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Watsons

Context Readings

Praise To Yahweh For His Creation And Providence

16 The trees of the LORD also are full of sap, even the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted, 17 wherein the birds make their nests; and the fir trees are a dwelling for the stork. 18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats, and so are the stony rocks for the conies.

Cross References

Psalm 104:12

Beside them shall the fowls of the air have their habitation, and sing among the branches.

Leviticus 11:19

the heron, the jay with the kind, the lapwing and the swallow.

Jeremiah 8:7

The Stork knoweth her appointed time; the Turtledove, the Swallow and the Crane consider the time of their travail: but my people will not know the time of the punishment of the LORD.

Jeremiah 22:23

thou that dwellest upon Lebanon, and makest thy nest in the Cedar's trees. O how great shall thy mourning be, when thy sorrows come upon thee, as a woman travailing with child?

Ezekiel 31:6

All fowls of the air made their nests in his branches, under his boughs gendered all these beasts of the field, and under his shadow dwelt all people.

Daniel 4:21

whose leaves were fair, and the fruit much; under the which the beasts of the field had their habitation, and upon whose branches the fowls of the air did sit.

Obadiah 1:4

But though thou wentest up as high as the Eagle, and madest thy nest above among the stars: yet would I pluck thee down from thence.

Matthew 13:32

But when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and it is a tree: so that the birds of the air come, and build in the branches of it."

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