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
I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.
Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!
Micah 1:8
For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
A pelican
Isaiah 34:11
But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
Zephaniah 2:14
Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
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Leviticus 11:16
the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind,
Ezekiel 12:18
"Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink water with trembling and with anxiety.