Psalms 84:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 90:1 : 1 <A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.> Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.
  • Ps 5:2 : 2 Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.
  • Ps 43:4 : 4 Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.
  • Ps 91:1 : 1 Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;
  • Ps 116:7 : 7 Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward.
  • Matt 8:20 : 20 And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!

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  • 4 Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah.)

  • 17 Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.

  • Ps 84:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 <To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies!

    2 The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

  • Ps 102:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.

    7 I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.

  • Isa 34:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.

    16 See what is recorded in the book of the Lord: all these will be there, not one without the other: the mouth of the Lord has given the order, and his spirit has made them come together.

  • Job 39:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27 Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;

    28 When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.

  • 14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.

  • 12 The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.

  • 8 Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

  • 11 As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:

  • 7 Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.

  • 7 Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.

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    16 The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;

    17 And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;

  • Ps 61:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3 For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me.

    4 I will make your tent my resting-place for ever: I will keep myself under the cover of your wings. (Selah.)

  • 7 How good is your loving mercy, O God! the children of men take cover under the shade of your wings.

  • Job 39:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13 Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?

    14 Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?

  • 5 Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob.

  • 9 Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;

  • 6 If by chance you see a place which a bird has made for itself in a tree or on the earth, with young ones or eggs, and the mother bird seated on the young ones or on the eggs, do not take the mother bird with the young:

  • 1 <A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.> Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.

  • 1 <For the chief music-maker. Of David.> In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

  • Ps 132:13-14
    2 verses
    67%

    13 For the Lord's heart is on Zion, desiring it for his resting-place.

    14 This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.

  • 13 Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.

  • 8 Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.

  • 10 For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

  • 4 You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.

  • 6 And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.

  • 19 In the Lord's house, even in Jerusalem. Praise be to the Lord.

  • 8 Who are these coming like a cloud, like a flight of doves to their windows?

  • 9 My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction.

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    8 The birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever goes through the deep waters of the seas.

  • 27 But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When he went in flight from Saul, in the hole of the rock.> Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.

  • 3 In its buildings God is seen to be a high tower.

  • 14 And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.

  • 28 O people of Moab, go away from the towns and take cover in the rock; be like the dove of the Arabah, which makes her living-place in holes.

  • 9 Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will be working for your good.

  • 8 O Lord God of armies, let my prayer come to you: give ear, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)

  • 17 And the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl;

  • 11 Shaking with fear like a bird, they will come out of Egypt, like a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will give them rest in their houses, says the Lord.

  • 9 He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.