Psalms 104:17
He sent a man before them: Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
In Context
16And he called a famine upon the land, and he crushed every foundation of the bread.
18They humbled his feet in shackles; the iron pierced his soul,
Cross References
Leviticus 11:19the heron, and the plover according to its kind, the crested hoopoe, and also the bat.
Jeremiah 8:7The hawk in the heavens has known her time. The turtledove, and the swallow, and the stork have kept the time of their arrival. But my people have not known the judgment of the Lord.
Ezekiel 31:6And when he had extended his shadow, all the birds of the air made their nests in his branches, and all the beasts of the forest conceived their young under his foliage, and an assembly of the many peoples lived under his shadow.
Obadiah 1:4Though you have been lifted high like an eagle, and though you have placed your nest among the stars, from there I will pull you down, says the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 104:11-19
The Divine Bounty. 10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. 11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst. 12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. 13 He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works. 14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; 15 And wine that maketh… Read the whole commentary →