“ I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. ”
I 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...
I am like a (e) pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. (e) Always mourning in solitude and casting out fearful cries.
CII. The title, which is unique in the Psalter, describes the contents of Psalms 102:1-11 very well. So far the Ps. is the prayer of a man in extreme affliction. The same may be said of Psalms 1...
a pelican... owl: both unclean birds. alone. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "flitting to and fro".
6 I have become like a pelican of the wilderness Instead of rendering the original word by pelican, some translate it bittern, and others the cuckoo. The Hebrew word here used for...
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I am like a pelican of the wilderness - It may be the pelican or the bittern. The original, קאת kaath, is mentioned Leviticus 1...
I am like a pelican of the wilderness— There are two species of pelicans, one of which lives in the water, upon fish; the other in the wilderness, upon serpents and reptiles. By the owl of the d...
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I am like a pelican of the wilderness - ( Isaiah 34:11 , margin) Expressive of his misery. I am like an owl of the des...
This Ps. belongs to the closing days of the exile, and utters the hope of Israel's restoration ( Psalms 102:13-22 ). The Psalmist has been supposed by some to speak simply in the name of the nation,...
Pelican. — See Leviticus 11:18 . “It has been objected that the pelican is a water-bird, and cannot, therefore, be the kâath of the Scriptures — “the pelican of the wilderness” — as it must of n...
Psalms 102:1-28 Psalms 102:13-14 show that the psalm was written when Zion was in ruins and the time of her restoration at hand. Sadness shot with hope, as a cloud with sunlight, is the singer's...
the Cry of the Afflicted Psalms 102:1-11 This is the fifth of the Penitential Psalms. Some hold that it is one of the later psalms, asking for deliverance from captivity; others, emphasizing ce...
This is a song of faith triumphing over affliction. Beginning with a prayer for deliverance, and a statement of the circumstances of suffering in which he then was, together with a recognition of tho...
I make no chasm in the reading of these verses, because they form together a complete detail of the state of the sufferer, and serve the better, in an united point of view, to interest our hearts in...
I am like a pelican of the wilderness ,.... It may be so called, to distinguish it from another of the same name that lives upon the waters; which has the name of "pelican" in the Greek tongue, as i...
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. Ver. 6. I am like a pelican ] Or bittern, which liveth in lonely places, and crieth out dolefully, Isa 34:11 Zephaniah 2:14...
My heart is withered like grass Which is smitten and withered by the heat of the sun, either while it stands, or after it is cut down. So that I forget to eat my bread Because my mind is wholly s...
Complaints in Affliction. A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the Lord....
Pelican; or, bittern , as the same word is translated, Isaiah 34:11 Zephaniah 2:14 . It is a solitary and mournful bird, as also the owl here following is.
INTRODUCTION It is impossible to determine on what occasion and by whom this Psalm was composed. Prof. Alexander and Hengstenberg regard it as a composition of David. But from internal evidence, esp...
Kindly notice the title of this Psalm: «Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.» I call your attention to it in order to remind you what charge...
It appears from Psalms 102:13-16 , that this psalm was written in Babylon, and near the time of the Jewish emancipation. It is highly prophetic of the greater deliverance by the Messiah, whose law s...
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto Thee. Thoughts of comfort and complaint I. Thoughts of complaint ( Psalms 102:1-11 ). 1. Concerning bodily sufferings. (1) The physical an...
EXPOSITION THE "title" of this psalm is altogether peculiar, being "a Prayer for the afflicted, when he faints, and pours out his complaint before Jehovah." This is clearly a general direction...
Complaint of One in Great Trouble. A prayer of the afflicted, one in great misery and distress, when he is overwhelmed, Psalms 61:2 , and poureth out his complaint, as from an inverted vessel, in...
Isaiah 34:11-15 ; Isaiah 38:14 ; Job 30:29 ; Job 30:30 ; Micah 1:8 ; Revelation 18:2 ; Zephaniah 2:14
A pelican — Is a solitary and mournful bird.