I am like a pelican of the wilderness - A bird in the midst of desolation becomes a striking image of loneliness and distress. The …

Pelican. See Leviticus 11:18.

It has been objected that the pelican, being a water-bird, cannot, therefore, be the kâat…

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to ea…

I have become like a pelican of the wilderness. Instead of rendering the original word as pelican, some translate it as bitte…

I am like a pelican of the wilderness
It may be so called, to distinguish it from another of the same name that live…

The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but here, as often elsewhere, the Holy Spirit has put words into our mouths. Here is a pray…