Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
A pelican
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Job 30:29
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
Micah 1:8
For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.
A pelican
Isaiah 34:11
But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it. And the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
Zephaniah 2:14
And herds shall lay down in the midst of her. All the beasts of the nations, both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the capitals of it. [Their] voice shall sing in the windows. Desolation shall be in the thresholds. For
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Leviticus 11:16
and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after its kind,
Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness.