Psalms Chapter 102 verse 6 Holy Bible
I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.
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I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.
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I am become like the pelican of the wilderness, I am as an owl in desolate places;
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I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
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I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.
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I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places.
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Psalms 102 : 6 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - I am like a pelican in the wilderness. The Hebrew word here rendered "pelican" is elsewhere in our version translated by "cormorant" (Leviticus 11:7; Deuteronomy 14:17; Isaiah 34:11; Zephaniah 2:14); but it is now generally believed that the pelican is intended (compare the Septuagint πελεκᾶνι, and see Mr. Houghton's letter in the Academy, April 5, 1884, and the versions of Hengstenberg, Kay, Cheyne, and our Revisers). The pelican is a bird which haunts marshy and desolate places. It abounds in the Lake Huleh in Northern Galilee (Thomson, 'The Land and the Book,' p. 260). I am like an owl of the desert; or, "of the ruins." The owl haunts ruins in the East no less than in our own country (Layard, 'Nineveh and Babylon,' p. 484, note).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) Pelican.--See Leviticus 11:18. "It has been objected that the pelican is a water-bird, and cannot, therefore, be the kaath of the Scriptures--"the pelican of the wilderness"--as it must of necessity starve in the desert; but a midbar (wilderness) is often used to denote a wide open space, cultivated or uncultivated, and is not to be restricted to barren spots destitute of water; moreover, as a matter of fact, the pelican after filling its capacious pouch with fish, molluscs, &c, often does. retire to places far inland, where it consumes what it has captured. Thus, too, it breeds on the great sandy wastes near the mouths of the Danube. The expression 'pelican in the wilderness,' in the psalmist's pitiable complaint, is a true picture of the bird as it sits in apparently melancholy mood with its bill resting on its breast (Bible Educator, iv. 8).Owl.--Heb., khos. (See Leviticus 11:17.) The bird is identified with the "owl" by the Hebrew in this passage, which should be rendered, "owl of the ruins." Some, however, would identify this bird with the pelican, since khos means "cup," rendering "the pelican, even the pouch-bird." (See Bible Educator, ii. 346.) LXX., Aquila, Theodotion, all have "screech-owl;" Symmachus, the "hoopoe."
