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How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!

Psalms 104:18

In 11 translations

BSB
The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.Or the coneys or the hyraxes
KJV
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
WEB
The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
ASV
The high mountains are for the wild goats; The rocks are a refuge for the conies.
LSV
The high hills [are] for wild goats, rocks [are] a refuge for hyraxes,
YLT
The high hills [are] for wild goats, Rocks [are] a refuge for conies,
DBY
The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs, a refuge for the rock-badgers.
DRC103:18
The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the irchins.
GNV
The high mountaines are for the goates: the rockes are a refuge for the conies.
JPS
The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the conies.
LXXE103:18
The high mountains are a refuge for the stags, and the rock for the rabbits.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הָרִ֣ים הַ֭גְּבֹהִים לַיְּעֵלִ֑ים סְ֝לָעִ֗ים מַחְסֶ֥ה לַֽשְׁפַנִּֽים׃
LXX-Br103:18
Ὄρη τὰ ὑψηλὰ ταῖς ἐλάφοις, πέτρα καταφυγὴ τοῖς χοιρογρυλλίοις.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Proverbs 30:26the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;
  • Job 39:1“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?
  • Leviticus 11:5The rock badger, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
  • 1 Samuel 24:2So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
  • Deuteronomy 14:7But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are…

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