Psalms 102:6
I am become like the pelican of the wilderness, I am as an owl in desolate places;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
In Context
5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh.
7I watch, and am like a sparrow alone upon the housetop.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:16and the female ostrich and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, and the hawk, after its kind;
Job 30:29I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
Isaiah 38:14Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Zephaniah 2:14And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the crowd of beasts; both the pelican and the bittern shall lodge in the chapiters thereof; a voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be on the thresholds: for he hath laid bare the cedar work.
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 →