Parallel Verses

NET Bible

I stay awake; I am like a solitary bird on a 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.

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.

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 am like an owl in the wilderness; I am like a screech owl among the ruins. 7 I stay awake; I am like a solitary bird on a roof. 8 All day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name in their curses.

Cross References

Psalm 77:4

You held my eyelids open; I was troubled and could not speak.

Psalm 38:11

Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away.

Deuteronomy 28:66-67

Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next.

Job 7:13-16

If I say, "My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,"

Psalm 22:2

My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.

Psalm 130:6

I yearn for the Lord, more than watchmen do for the morning, yes, more than watchmen do for the morning.

Lamentations 3:28-30

(Yod) Let a person sit alone in silence, when the Lord is disciplining him.

Mark 14:33-37

He took Peter, James, and John with him, and became very troubled and distressed.

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