Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I watch, and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the housetop.

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.

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.

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 become like a pelican in the wilderness, and like an owl in a broken wall. 7 I watch, and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the housetop. 8 Mine enemies revile me all the day long; and they that are mad upon me are sworn together against me.

Cross References

Psalm 77:4

Thou heldest mine eyes waking, I was so feeble, that I could not speak.

Psalm 38:11

My lovers and friends stand looking upon my trouble, and my kinsmen are gone afar off.

Deuteronomy 28:66-67

And thy life shall hang before thee, and thou shalt fear both day and night and shalt have no trust in thy life.

Job 7:13-16

When I think, 'My bed shall comfort me; I shall have some refreshing by talking to myself upon my couch,'

Psalm 22:2

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not: and in the night season also I take no rest.

Psalm 130:6

My soul fleeth unto the LORD before the morning watch, I say, before the morning watch.

Lamentations 3:28-30

{Yod} He sitteth alone, he holdeth him still, and dwelleth quietly by himself.

Mark 14:33-37

And he took with him Peter, James, and John, and he began to wax abashed and to be in an agony.

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