Psalm 102:6 {101:7}
Good News Translation
I am like a wild bird in the desert, like an owl in abandoned ruins.

New Revised Standard Version
I am like an owl of the wilderness, like a little owl of the waste places.

Contemporary English Version
I am like a lonely owl in the desert

New American Bible
I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house.

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Job 30:29,30 I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches. . . .

Isaiah 38:14 I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.

Micah 1:8 And all her graven things shall be cut in pieces, and all her wages shall be burnt with fire, and I will bring to destruction all her idols: for they were gathered together of the hire of a harlot, and unto the hire of a harlot they shall return.

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Isaiah 34:11-15 The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be stretched out upon it, to bring it to nothing, and a plummet, unto desolation. . . .

Zephaniah 2:14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst thereof, all the beasts of the nations: and the bittern and the urchin shall lodge in the threshold thereof: the voice of the singing bird in the window, the raven on the upper post, for I will consume her strength.

Revelation 18:2 And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen: and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every unclean spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird:

Context
The Prayer of the Afflicted
5Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh. 6I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house.7I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.…
Cross References
Isaiah 34:11
The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be stretched out upon it, to bring it to nothing, and a plummet, unto desolation.

Isaiah 38:14
I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.

Zephaniah 2:14
And flocks shall lie down in the midst thereof, all the beasts of the nations: and the bittern and the urchin shall lodge in the threshold thereof: the voice of the singing bird in the window, the raven on the upper post, for I will consume her strength.

Psalm 102:5
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