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104:14-18 The Lord Provides Food and Homes for the Land Creatures. The thought of water naturally leads to the growth of vegetation (the second part of the third day of creation; Gen. 1:11-12): grass, plants, grapes (yielding wine), olives (yielding oil), grains (yielding bread), and trees of various kinds. While Ps. 104:14-15 stresses life on a farm (with livestock and food from the earth), vv. 16-18 join vv. 10-13 in focusing on the wild environment (e.g., where the wild goats, or ibexes, live). God's care extends to the unclean animals, such as the stork (Lev. 11:19; Deut. 14:18) and the rock badgers (or hyraxes, Lev. 11:5; Deut. 14:7; see note on Prov. 30:24-28). God cares for all kinds of animals, even for those that he has specifically forbidden the Israelites to eat.