Psalms 104:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The rocks for the conies— See Leviticus 11:5. The meaning of the Psalmist is, that even those parts of the earth which may seem barren and useless have yet their uses, and serve to shelter certain animals which are adapted to them. None, says Dr. Delaney, but one who had surveyed the venerable shade and stupendous size of the cedars of Libanus, could entertain those exalted conceptions of them which David here does: that they were planted by the hand of God, Psalms 104:16. None but one who had been himself refuged in the hills of the wild goats, could so well, and so familiarly, contemplate upon the ends of the divine wisdom in forming these solitary sanctuaries. It were endless to enumerate particulars; and I shall only beg leave to add, that none but one well acquainted with the fierce inhabitants of the forest, their rovings and roarings, could so describe them, as David doth in Psalms 104:20-22.