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 have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.
Isaiah 38:14
I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.
Micah 1:8
For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.
A pelican
Isaiah 34:11
But the birds of the waste land will have their place there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land.
Zephaniah 2:14
And herds will take their rest in the middle of her, all the beasts of the valley: the pelican and the porcupine will make their living-places on the tops of its pillars; the owl will be crying in the window; the raven will be seen on the doorstep.
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Leviticus 11:16
And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort;
Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;