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 daughters of the ostrich.
Isaiah 38:14
Like a twittering swallow, so I chatter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look weakly to the heights. O Jehovah, I am pressed down; be surety for me.
Micah 1:8
Therefore I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like jackals, mourn like the daughters of an ostrich.
A pelican
Isaiah 34:11
But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also, and the raven, shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out on it the line of shame, and the stones of emptiness.
Zephaniah 2:14
And flocks shall lie down in her midst, all the beasts of a nation; both the pelican and the bittern shall roost in the capitals of its pillars; a voice shall sing at the window, ruin shall be at the doorsill, for he will bare the cedar-work.
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Leviticus 11:16
and the ostrich, and the great owl, and the gull, and small hawks, according to its kind,
Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking and drink your water with trembling and anxiety.