Treasury of Scripture
a brother
Job 17:14 I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.
Psalm 102:6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Isaiah 13:21,22 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there...
Isaiah 38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed...
Micah 1:8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
Malachi 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
owls. or, ostriches (Benoth y??nah, in Arabic, bintu n??matin, not owls, but ostriches, so called from their doleful and hideous noises. 'I have often,' says Dr. Shaw, 'heard them groan as if they were in the greatest agonies.')
