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 desert - or, as the Syriac and Arabic, 'in a ruin:' among the ruins of a house. This expresses his loneliness, surrounded by enemies, and without any to befriend and save him.