Psalm 102:6 “I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.”

Psalm 102:6

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

I am like a pelicane of the wildernesse: I am like an owle of the deserts.

Darby Translation

I am become like the pelican of the wilderness, I am as an owl in desolate 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.

Bible in Basic English

I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.

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Cross references

“like”

Isaiah 38:14 Micah 1:8 Job 30:29 Job 30:30

Isaiah 38:14 · BSB

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 · BSB

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.

Job 30:29 · BSB

I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

Job 30:30 · BSB

My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

“a pelican”

Zephaniah 2:14 Revelation 18:2 Isaiah 34:11–15

Zephaniah 2:14 · BSB

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 ex…

Revelation 18:2 · BSB

And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.

Isaiah 34:11–15 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5Through my loud groaning my skin hangs on my bones.

7I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.

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