I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
The psalm containing this line is associated with the sorrows and afflictions of the Hebrew captives during the Babylonian captivity. Within it, this line belongs to a plea for mercy that every true believer may adopt as his own. It compares the speaker's loneliness and desolation to a pelican in the wilderness and an owl in the desert, expressing deep distress and isolation. Even a person who feels as alone and desolate as those birds is not forgotten by God, who tenderly cares for him.
The psalm containing this line is associated with the sorrows and afflictions of the Hebrew captives during the Babylonian captivity. Within it, this line belongs to a plea for mercy that every true believer may adopt as his own. It compares the speaker's loneliness and desolation to a pelican in the wilderness and an owl in the desert, expressing deep distress and isolation. Even a person who feels as alone and desolate as those birds is not forgotten by God, who tenderly cares for him.