Psalms 102:6
I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
In Context
5Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh.
7I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone upon the house-top.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:16and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after its kind,
Job 30:29I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Isaiah 38:14Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
Zephaniah 2:14And herds shall lay down in the midst of her. All the beasts of the nations, both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the capitals of it. [Their] voice shall sing in the windows. Desolation shall be in the thresholds. For
Matthew Henry on Psalms 102:2-12
Complaints in Affliction. 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord , and let my cry come unto thee. 2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth. 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7 I… Read the whole commentary →