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 to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Isaiah 38:14
I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security."
Micah 1:8
For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.
A pelican
Isaiah 34:11
But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
Zephaniah 2:14
Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
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Leviticus 11:16
the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk,
Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;