KJV King James Version
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
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Psalm 102:6
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
WEB World English Bible
I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.
ASV American Standard Version
I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places.
Surrounding context — Psalm 102
3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an 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 watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
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Isaiah 38:14Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.Zephaniah 2:14And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; desolation [shall be] in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.Revelation 18:2And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.Job 30:29-30I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.Isaiah 34:11-15But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.Micah 1:8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
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