Psalms 104:12

New King James Version

By them the birds of the heavens have their home; They sing among the branches.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell; they sing among the branches.

Geneva Bible (1587)
By these springs shall the foules of the heauen dwell, and sing among the branches.

Christian Standard Bible®
The birds of the sky live beside the springs;they make their voices heard among the foliage.

Hebrew Names Version
The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.

Easy-to-Read Version
Wild birds come to live by the pools; they sing in the branches of nearby trees.

Amplified Bible
Beside them the birds of the heavens have their nests; They lift up their voices and sing among the branches.

American Standard Version
By them the birds of the heavens have their habitation; They sing among the branches.

Contemporary English Version
Birds build their nests nearby and sing in the trees.

Complete Jewish Bible
On their banks the birds of the air build their nests; among the branches they sing.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Beside them dwell the fowl of the heaven, from among the branches they sing.

King James Version (1611)
By them shall the foules of the heauen haue their habitation: which sing among the branches.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
By them shall the birds of the sky lodge: they shall utter a voice out of the midst of the rocks.

English Revised Version
By them the fowl of the heaven have their habitation, they sing among the branches.

Berean Standard Bible
The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.

Lexham English Bible
Along them the birds of the heavens abide. From among the branches they sing.

Literal Translation
over them the birds of the heavens dwell; they give voice from between the branches.

New Century Version
Wild birds make nests by the water; they sing among the tree branches.

New English Translation
The birds of the sky live beside them; they chirp among the bushes.

New Living Translation
The birds nest beside the streams and sing among the branches of the trees.

New Life Bible
The birds of the sky nest beside them. They sing among the branches.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Over them, the bird of the heavens settleth down, From amidst the foliage, they utter a voice.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(103-12) Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: from the midst of the rocks they shall give forth their voices.

George Lamsa Translation
By them the fowls of the heaven have their habitation; from among the hills they sing.

Good News Translation
In the trees near by, the birds make their nests and sing.

New American Standard Bible
The birds of the sky dwell beside them; They lift up their voices from among the branches.

King James Version
By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The foules of the ayre haue their habitation nigh vnto them: singing out of the midst of the bowes [of trees.]

New Revised Standard
By the streams the birds of the air have their habitation; they sing among the branches.

Darby Translation
The birds of heaven dwell by them; they give forth their voice from among the branches.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Briddis of the eir schulen dwelle on tho; fro the myddis of stoonys thei schulen yyue voices.

Young's Literal Translation
By them the fowl of the heavens doth dwell, From between the branches They give forth the voice.

World English Bible
The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.

Revised Standard Version
By them the birds of the air have their habitation; they sing among the branches.

Update Bible Version
By them the birds of the heavens have their habitation; They sing among the branches.

Webster's Bible Translation
By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, [which] sing among the branches.

Bible in Basic English
The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Aboue vpon the hilles haue the foules of the ayre their habitacion, and synge amonge the braunches.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell; They lift up their voices among the branches.

Legacy Standard Bible
Above them the birds of the heavens dwell;They give forth their voices among the branches.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ He sends the springs into the valleys; They flow among the hills. ¹¹ They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild donkeys quench their thirst. ¹² By them the birds of the heavens have their home; They sing among the branches. ¹³ He waters the hills from His upper chambers; The earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works. ¹⁴ He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the service of man, That he may bring forth food from the earth, ¹⁵ And wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face shine, And bread which strengthens man's heart. ¹⁶ The trees of the LORD are full of sap, The cedars of Lebanon which He planted, ¹⁷ Where the birds make their nests; The stork has her home in the fir trees. ¹⁸ The high hills are for the wild goats;The cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers. Leviticus 11:5) ">[fn]

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the fowls: Psalms 104:16, Psalms 104:17, Psalms 50:11, Psalms 84:3, Psalms 148:10, Matthew 6:26

sing: Heb. give a voice, Psalms 147:9

Gill's Notes on the Bible

By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation,.... Another use of the springs, fountains, and rivers of water; by the sides and on the shores of these, some birds delight to be, and on trees that grow here do they build their nests; and here, having wetted their throats, they sit, and chirp, and sing: to doves, by rivers of water, is the allusion in Song of Solomon 5:12.

Which sing among the branches; of trees that grow by the sides of fountains and rivers; see Ezekiel 17:23. To such birds may saints be compared; being, like them, weak, defenceless, and timorous; liable to be taken in snares, and sometimes wonderfully delivered; as well as given to wanderings and strayings: and to fowls of the heaven, being heaven born souls, and partakers of the heavenly calling. These have their habitation by the fountain of Jacob, by the river of divine love, beside the still waters of the sanctuary; where they sing the songs of Zion, the songs of electing, redeeming, and calling grace.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation - Among them the fowls of the air dwell. That is, among the trees which spring up by the fountains and water-courses. The whole picture is full of animation and beauty.

Which sing among the branches - Margin, as in Hebrew, “give a voice.” Their voice is heard - their sweet music - in the foliage of the trees which grow on the margin of the streams and by the fountains. There is scarcely to be found a more beautiful poetic image than this.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 104:12. By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation — All fowls love verdure, and have their residence where they can find wood and water.