Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

I watched and I shall be as the sparrow being alone upon the roof

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.

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.

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.

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Verse Info

Context Readings

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

6 I was like to the pelican of the desert: I was as the owl of the dry places. 7 I watched and I shall be as the sparrow being alone upon the roof 8 All the day mine enemies reproached me, they praising me aware against me.

Cross References

Psalm 77:4

Thou didst hold mine eyes watching: I was moved, and I will not speak.

Psalm 38:11

My heart moved about rapidly, my strength forsook me, and the light of mine eyes also they not with me.

Deuteronomy 28:66-67

And thy lives were hung before thee; and thou wert afraid night and day, and thou shalt not trust to thy life

Job 7:13-16

For I said, My bed shall comfort me; my couch shall lift up in my complaint;

Psalm 22:2

My God, I will call in the day, and thou wilt not answer; and in the night no silence to me.

Psalm 130:6

My soul for Jehovah more than they watching for the morning: they watching for the morning.

Lamentations 3:28-30

He will sit alone and be silent, for he laid upon him.

Mark 14:33-37

And he takes Peter and James and John with himself, and began to be amazed, and to be dejected.

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