Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.

New American Standard Bible

I lie awake,
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 stay awake;
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.

A Conservative Version

I watch, and have 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.

References

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Verse Info

Context Readings

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places. 7 I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top. 8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.


Cross References

Psalm 77:4

Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Psalm 38:11

My lovers 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 shalt fear night and day, and shalt 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 answerest not; And in the night season, and am not silent.

Psalm 130:6

My soul waiteth for the Lord More than watchmen wait for the morning; Yea, more than watchmen for the morning.

Lamentations 3:28-30

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

Mark 14:33-37

And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly amazed, and sore troubled.

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