Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone upon the house-top.
New American Standard Bible
I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.
King James Version
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Holman Bible
I am like a solitary bird on a roof.
International Standard Version
I lie awake, yet I am like a bird isolated on a rooftop.
American Standard Version
I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.
Amplified
I am sleepless and lie awake [mourning],
I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.
Darby Translation
I watch, and am like a sparrow alone upon the housetop.
Julia Smith Translation
I watched and I shall be as the sparrow being alone upon the roof
King James 2000
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I lie awake and I am like a lone bird on a roof.
Modern King James verseion
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone on the house top.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I watch, and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the housetop.
NET Bible
I stay awake; I am like a solitary bird on a roof.
New Heart English Bible
I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
The Emphasized Bible
I have watched and am become, Like a bird sitting alone upon a housetop.
Webster
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
World English Bible
I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
Youngs Literal Translation
I have watched, and I am As a bird alone on the roof.
Topics
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 102:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Affliction In Light Of Eternity
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places. 7 I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone upon the house-top. 8 My enemies reproach me all the day. Those who are mad against me do curse by me.
Cross References
Psalm 77:4
Thou have held my eyelids watching. I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Psalm 38:11
Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Deuteronomy 28:66-67
And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee, and thou shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of thy life.
Job 7:13-16
When I say, My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint.
Psalm 22:2
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answer not, and in the night season, and I am not silent.
Psalm 130:6
my soul for LORD more than watchmen for the morning, watchmen for the morning.
Lamentations 3:28-30
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it upon him.
Mark 14:33-37
And he takes Peter and James and John with him, and began to be greatly disturbed, and very distressed.