Revised Literal Translation
Psalms 102:6
6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Psalms 102:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
- New International Version (NIV)I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;
- New King James Version (NKJV)I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert.
Context of Psalms 102:6
4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. 8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
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דָּ֭מִיתִי לִקְאַ֣ת מִדְבָּ֑ר הָ֝יִ֗יתִי כְּכ֣וֹס חֳרָבֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 102:6
- Job 30:29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- Isaiah 38:14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Yhwh, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
- Micah 1:8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
- Isaiah 34:11But 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 2:14And 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 18:2And 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.
Commentaries on Psalms 102:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6I am like a pelican of the wilderness - It may be the pelican or the bittern. The original, קאת kaath, is mentioned Leviticus 11:18; (note), and is there described. See the note. Owl of the desert - כוש cos, some species of owl; probably the night raven. See the notes referred to above.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6I am like a pelican of the wilderness - A bird in the midst of desolation becomes a striking image of loneliness and distress. The word rendered “pelican” - קאת qâ'ath - is supposed to have been a name given to the pelican from the idea of vomiting, as it “vomits the shells and other substances which it has too voraciously swallowed.” The word occurs in the following places, where it is rendered as here “pelican:” Leviticus 11:18; Deuteronomy 14:17; and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6Owls often live in deserted places, such as ruined cities. Because of this, the Bible sometimes uses the owl as a sign of ruin and desolation (Isaiah 34:11, 15).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 6-76-7. The figures express extreme loneliness.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 102
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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