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
But now I am a companion of dragons, and a fellow of ostriches.
Isaiah 38:14
Then chattered I like a swallow, and like a crane, and mourned as a dove. I lift up mine eyes to the height: 'O LORD,' say I, 'violence is done unto me, be thou surety for me.'
Micah 1:8
Wherefore I will mourn and make lamentation, bare and naked will I go: I must mourn like the dragons, and take sorrow as the ostriches:
A pelican
Isaiah 34:11
But Pelicans, Storks, great Owls, and Ravens shall have it in possession, and dwell therein. For God shall spread out the line of desolation upon it, and weight it with the stones of emptiness.
Zephaniah 2:14
The flocks and all the beasts of the people shall lie in the midst of it, pelicans and storks shall abide in the upper posts of it, fowls shall sing in the windows, and ravens shall sit upon the balks, for the borders of cedar shall be riven down.
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Leviticus 11:16
the ostrich, the nightcrow, the cuckoo, the sparrowhawk, and all the kind;
Ezekiel 12:18
"Thou son of man: with a fearful trembling shalt thou eat thy bread, with carefulness and sorrow shalt thou drink thy water.