Devine Scripture

Psalms 102:6

Psalms chapter 102 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

v.6This passage

v.7I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.

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.