Psalms 102:6
(102-7) I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
In Context
5(102-6) By reason of the voice of my sighing my bones cleave to my flesh.
7(102-8) I watch, and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:16and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;
Job 30:29I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Isaiah 38:14Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be Thou my surety.
Zephaniah 2:14And all beasts of every kind shall lie down in the midst of her in herds; both the pelican and the bittern shall lodge in the capitals thereof; voices shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the posts; for the cedar-work thereof shall be uncovered.
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 →