Parallel Verses

World English Bible

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on 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.

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.

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 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 on the housetop. 8 My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.


Cross References

Psalm 77:4

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.

Psalm 38:11

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

Deuteronomy 28:66-67

and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.

Job 7:13-16

When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;'

Psalm 22:2

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

Psalm 130:6

My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.

Lamentations 3:28-30

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

Mark 14:33-37

He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.

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