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Psalm 104:18

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

16The LORD’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted,
17where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.
18The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
19He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.
20You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
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Notice

High mountains and rocky ground become places of shelter here, drawing attention to creatures whose homes you might pass without a thought.

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Where else Scripture says this

6 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Proverbs 30:26Both passages describe rocks as shelter for hyraxes, with Proverbs drawing attention to the weakness of these creatures.
Job 39:1“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?Both passages attend to mountain goats: the psalm names their habitat, while Job asks about knowledge of their births.
Leviticus 11:5The hyrax, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.Both name the hyrax, or rock badger, though Leviticus addresses its status as food and the psalm describes its refuge.
1 Samuel 24:2Then 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.Both associate wild goats with rocky terrain, which becomes the setting for Saul’s search for David in Samuel.
Deuteronomy 14:7Nevertheless 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 …The shared thread is land animals; Deuteronomy addresses which may be eaten, while the psalm describes where particular creatures live.
Genesis 1:24God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.Genesis describes land animals coming into being at God’s command, while the psalm attends to the habitats of particular land animals.
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Spend five minutes observing where nearby animals shelter

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Encouragement

God’s provision reaches places you may never visit and creatures you may never see. The mountains have their inhabitants; the rocks offer refuge to small animals.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).