Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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
A brother, became I to the brutes that howl, and a companion to the birds that screech:
Isaiah 38:14
As 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!
Micah 1:8
For this cause, will I lament and howl, I will go stript and bare, - I will make a lamentation, like the wild dogs, and a mourning, like ostriches.
A pelican
Isaiah 34:11
That the vomiting pelican and the bittern may possess it: And the great owl and the raven, dwell therein; Then will he stretch out over it The line of desolation, and The plummet of emptiness.
Zephaniah 2:14
So 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.
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Leviticus 11:16
and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, - and the hawk after its kind;
Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, Thy bread, with trembling, shalt thou eat, - And thy water, in agitation and in fear, shalt thou drink.