Psalms 102:6
I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
In Context
5From the voice of my sighing Hath my bone cleaved to my flesh.
7I have watched, and I am As a bird alone on the roof.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:16and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind,
Job 30:29A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.
Isaiah 38:14As a crane — a swallow — so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression [is] on me, be my surety.
Zephaniah 2:14And crouched in her midst have droves, Every beast of the nation, Both pelican and hedge-hog in her knobs lodge, A voice doth sing at the window, 'Destruction [is] at the threshold, For the cedar-work is exposed.'
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 →