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 dragons and a companion to owls.
Isaiah 38:14
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I complain; I mourned as a dove; I raised my eyes upward, O LORD, I am suffering violence; comfort me.
Micah 1:8
Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons and mourning as the owls.
A pelican
Isaiah 34:11
But 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 level of desolation.
Zephaniah 2:14
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the Gentiles; both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in her thresholds; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the gates: for her cedar work shall be uncovered.
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Leviticus 11:16
the owl, the night hawk, the cuckow, and the hawk according to his species;
Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety