Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins. New Living Translation I am like an owl in the desert, like a little owl in a far-off wilderness. English Standard Version I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places; Berean Standard Bible I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins. King James Bible I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. New King James Version I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert. New American Standard Bible I resemble a pelican of the wilderness; I have become like an owl of the ruins. NASB 1995 I resemble a pelican of the wilderness; I have become like an owl of the waste places. NASB 1977 I resemble a pelican of the wilderness; I have become like an owl of the waste places. Legacy Standard Bible I resemble a pelican of the wilderness; I have become like an owl of the waste places. Amplified Bible I am like a [mournful] vulture of the wilderness; I am like a [desolate] owl of the wasteland. Christian Standard Bible I am like an eagle owl, like a little owl among the ruins. Holman Christian Standard Bible I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins. American Standard Version I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places. Contemporary English Version I am like a lonely owl in the desert English Revised Version I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places. GOD'S WORD® Translation I am like a desert owl, like an owl living in the ruins. Good News Translation I am like a wild bird in the desert, like an owl in abandoned ruins. International Standard Version I resemble a pelican in the wilderness or an owl in a desolate land. Majority Standard Bible I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins. NET Bible I am like an owl in the wilderness; I am like a screech owl among the ruins. New Heart English Bible I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places. Webster's Bible Translation I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. World English Bible I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionI have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, "" I have been as an owl of the dry places. Young's Literal Translation I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places. Smith's Literal Translation I was like to the pelican of the desert: I was as the owl of the dry places. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleI am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house. Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins. New Revised Standard Version I am like an owl of the wilderness, like a little owl of the waste places. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleI am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated I have been like a pelican in the wilderness and I have been like an owl in the desert. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places. Brenton Septuagint Translation I have become like a pelican of the wilderness; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Prayer of the Afflicted…5Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones. 6I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins. 7I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.… Cross References Isaiah 34:11 The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction. Jeremiah 9:11 “And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.” Zephaniah 2:14 Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar. Lamentations 3:28-29 Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it upon him. / Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope. Job 30:29 I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches. Isaiah 38:14 I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.” Micah 1:8 Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich. Hosea 7:11 So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria. Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! Luke 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! Matthew 8:20 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.” Luke 9:58 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.” Mark 1:35 Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up and went out to a solitary place to pray. John 1:32 Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and resting on Him. John 3:14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, Treasury of Scripture I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. like Job 30:29,30 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls… Isaiah 38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. Micah 1:8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. a pelican Isaiah 34:11-15 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness… Zephaniah 2:14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work. Revelation 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Jump to Previous Bird Desert Desolate Dry Itself Owl Pelican Places Resemble Ruins Sand Vulture Waste WildernessJump to Next Bird Desert Desolate Dry Itself Owl Pelican Places Resemble Ruins Sand Vulture Waste WildernessPsalm 102 1. The prophet in his prayer makes a grievous complaint.12. He takes comfort in the eternity, and mercy of God 18. The mercies of God are to be recorded 23. He sustains his weakness by the unchangeableness of God. I am like a desert owl of the wilderness I am This phrase is a declaration of identity and existence. In the Hebrew text, the phrase "I am" is often used to express a deep personal experience or condition. Here, the psalmist is expressing a profound sense of isolation and desolation. The use of "I am" indicates a present and ongoing state, suggesting that the psalmist feels this way continually, not just momentarily. This reflects the human experience of enduring suffering and loneliness, a theme that resonates throughout the Psalms. like a desert owl of the wilderness 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." Verse 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).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew I amהָ֝יִ֗יתִי (hā·yî·ṯî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be like דָּ֭מִיתִי (dā·mî·ṯî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 1819: To compare, to resemble, liken, consider a desert מִדְבָּ֑ר (miḏ·bār) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech owl, לִקְאַ֣ת (liq·’aṯ) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 6893: (a bird) perhaps pelican like an owl כְּכ֣וֹס (kə·ḵō·ws) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3563: A cup, a lot, some unclean bird, an owl among the ruins. חֳרָבֽוֹת׃ (ḥo·rā·ḇō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 2723: Waste, desolation, ruin Links Psalm 102:6 NIVPsalm 102:6 NLT Psalm 102:6 ESV Psalm 102:6 NASB Psalm 102:6 KJV Psalm 102:6 BibleApps.com Psalm 102:6 Biblia Paralela Psalm 102:6 Chinese Bible Psalm 102:6 French Bible Psalm 102:6 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 102:6 I am like a pelican (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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