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Psalm 104:17-19
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 104:17-19
New Catholic Bible
17 In them the birds build their nests;
in the fir trees the stork makes its home.
18 The high mountains are inhabited by the wild goats;
in the rocky crags the badgers[a] find refuge.
19 You created the moon that marks the seasons
and the sun that knows its time for setting.[b]
Footnotes
- Psalm 104:18 Badgers: the hyrax or rock badger, a small, harelike, ungulate mammal (see Lev 11:5; Deut 14:7; Prov 30:26).
- Psalm 104:19 The ancients governed their lives by the cycles of the sun and moon, which God created on the fourth day for that purpose (see Gen 1:14-19).
