Psalms 102:6
What does Psalms 102:6 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 102:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.
KJV
King James Version · 1611I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890I am become like the pelican of the wilderness, I am as an owl in desolate places;
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Micah 1:8
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.
- Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallowora 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.
- Zephaniah 2:14
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.
- Revelation 18:2
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
I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
- Isaiah 34:11
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.
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