Psalms 102:6

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Zeph 2:14 : 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.
  • Rev 18:2 : 2 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison 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 grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
  • Isa 34:11-15 : 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. 12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. 13 Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. 14 The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest. 15 The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.
  • Isa 38:14 : 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."
  • Mic 1:8 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 102:7-9
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    84%

    7 I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

    8 My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

    9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

  • Ps 102:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

    4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

    5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

  • 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."

  • Job 30:28-30
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    75%

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

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

    30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

  • Ps 55:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

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

    7 Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness." Selah.

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    15 and the ostrich, and the owl, and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind,

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

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

  • Ps 22:13-15
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    72%

    13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

    14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

    15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • Lev 11:16-18
    3 verses
    71%

    16 the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk,

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

    18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,

  • 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

  • 12 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

  • Ps 109:22-23
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    70%

    22 for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

    23 I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

  • 11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

  • Job 7:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

    12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

  • 19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Isa 34:14-15
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    69%

    14 The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest.

    15 The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.

  • 3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

  • 5 Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

  • Job 16:15-16
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    15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

    16 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

  • 6 I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

  • 9 Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.

  • 6 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

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

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

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

  • 9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

  • 1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

  • 8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

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

  • 16 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

  • 6 Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.