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 dragons, and a companion to owls.
Isaiah 38:14
Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for 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 stones of emptiness.
Zephaniah 2:14
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the threshholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
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Leviticus 11:16
And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with solicitude.