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Psalms 104:18

The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

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Parallel Translations

  • WEB World English Bible

    The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

  • KJV King James Version

    The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the conies.

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Cross-references (5)

Passages linked to Psalms 104:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Proverbs 30:26 The hyraxes are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.
  • Job 39:1 “Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
  • Leviticus 11:5 The hyrax, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.
  • 1 Samuel 24:2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.
  • Deuteronomy 14:7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

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Explain this verse (12 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, does, roes, and such like.

Or, does, roes, and such like.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 104:18 The high hills [are] a refuge for…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain So he passeth from the rain to other works…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The high hills are a refuge for the wild…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 18. The high hills are a refuge] The…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Psa 104:18. The high hills are a refuge for…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The high hills are a refuge for the wild…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 18. Wild goats—The name occurs but twice more in…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. From the lofty trees which are the home…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (18) Wild goats.—Heb., climbers, and so at home on…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The high hills are a refuge for the wild…
Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 18. The high hills are a refuge for…

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