Psalms 102:6
I am like the pelican of the desert, I have become as an owl among ruins.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
In Context
5At the noise of my groaning, my bone, hath cleaved, to my flesh:
7I have watched and am become, Like a bird sitting alone upon a housetop.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:16and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull,—and the hawk after its kind;
Job 30:29A brother, became I to the brutes that howl, and a companion to the birds that screech:
Isaiah 38:14As a twittering swallow, so, do I chatter, I coo as a dove,—Mine eyes languish through looking on high, O My Lord! distress is upon me—my Surety!
Zephaniah 2:14So shall lie down in her midst—flocks, each living thing of a nation, both pelican and bittern, in her capitals, shall roost,—a voice, shall resound in the window, the bustard, on the sill, for he hath destroyed, hath laid bare.
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 →