Isaiah 34:11-15; Isaiah 38:14; Job 30:29; Job 30:30; Micah 1:8; Revelation 18:2; Zephaniah 2:14
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...
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 ext...
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 oth...
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....
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...
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) Expre...
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 b...
Desert] RV 'waste places.'
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 —...
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 wi...
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...
This is a song of faith triumphing over affliction. Beginning with a prayer for deliverance, and a statement of the circumstances of suffering in whi...
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 a...
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 h...
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, an...
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 f...
Complaints in Affliction. A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed...
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...
INTRODUCTION It is impossible to determine on what occasion and by whom this Psalm was composed. Prof. Alexander and Hengstenberg regard it as a com...
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...
Psalms 102:1-19 . Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine e...
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 t...
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. Co...
EXPOSITION THE "title" of this psalm is altogether peculiar, being "a Prayer for the afflicted, when he faints, and pours out his complaint be...
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...
I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert, of ruined places, both of these being unclean birds according to the Levitical...
A pelican — Is a solitary and mournful bird.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.