Psalms 102:6 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 102:6

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places.

DBT

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

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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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.
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.
Job 30:29
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
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.
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.

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In affliction we should sit alone to consider our ways ( Lam. iii. 28 ), but not sit alone to indulge an inordinate grief. He was evil-spoken of by his enemies, and all manner of evil was said against him.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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