Psalms 102:6

American Standard Version (1901)

I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

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Referenced Verses

  • Zeph 2:14 : 14 And herds shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the capitals thereof; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he hath laid bare the cedar-work.
  • Rev 18:2 : 2 And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird.
  • Job 30:29-30 : 29 I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches. 30 My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
  • Isa 34:11-15 : 11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness. 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. 14 And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest. 15 There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.
  • Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
  • Mic 1:8 : 8 For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 102:7-9
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    84%

    7I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.

    8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.

    9For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

  • Ps 102:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    3For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

    4My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

  • Isa 38:14
    75%

    14Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

  • Job 30:28-30
    3 verses
    75%

    28I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

    29I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

    30My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.

  • Ps 55:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.

    7Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. {{Selah

  • Deut 14:15-17
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    72%

    15and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,

    16the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,

    17and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,

  • Ps 22:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

    13They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.

    14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

  • Lev 11:16-18
    3 verses
    71%

    16and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,

    17and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,

    18and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the vulture,

  • Ps 143:4
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    4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

  • Ps 31:12
    71%

    12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

  • Ps 109:22-23
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    70%

    22For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.

    23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

  • Ps 102:11
    70%

    11My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

  • Mic 1:8
    70%

    8For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

  • Isa 34:11
    69%

    11But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.

  • Jonah 2:4
    69%

    4And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

  • Job 7:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

    12Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

  • Job 30:19
    69%

    19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • Isa 34:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.

    15There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.

  • Ps 69:3
    69%

    3I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

  • Ps 120:5
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    5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

  • Job 16:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

    16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

  • Ps 143:6
    68%

    6I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a weary land. {{Selah

  • Jer 12:9
    68%

    9Is my heritage unto me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.

  • Job 17:6
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    6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

  • Lam 3:10-11
    2 verses
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    10He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • Ps 22:6
    68%

    6But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised of the people.

  • Ps 31:9
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    9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.

  • Ps 42:1
    67%

    1[For the Chief Musician. Maschil of the sons of Korah]. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God.

  • Ps 38:8
    67%

    8I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

  • Ps 38:6
    67%

    6I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

  • Ps 25:16
    67%

    16Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; For I am desolate and afflicted.

  • Ps 142:6
    67%

    6Attend unto my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For they are stronger than I.