Psalms 102:7
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.
- KJV
- I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
- WEB
- I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
- ASV
- I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.
- DARBY
- I watch, and am like a sparrow alone upon the housetop.
- BLB
- I stay awake, and I am like a bird alone on the housetop.
- ÅB
- Jeg våker og er blitt som en enslig fugl på taket.
- OTB
- Jeg ligger våken,
Jeg er som en ensom fugl på et hustak. - B1930
- Jeg våker og er blitt som en enslig fugl på taket.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 77:4
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
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He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
Read in contextMark 14:33–37
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
Read in contextPsalms 130:6
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Read in contextJob 7:13–16
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:66–67
And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
Read in contextPsalms 38:11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Read in contextPsalms 22:2
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
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