Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version I lie awake; I have become like a bird alone on a roof. New Living Translation I lie awake, lonely as a solitary bird on the roof. English Standard Version I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop. Berean Study Bible I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop. New American Standard Bible I lie awake, I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop. King James Bible I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. Christian Standard Bible I stay awake; I am like a solitary bird on a roof. Contemporary English Version or a restless sparrow alone on a roof. Good News Translation I lie awake; I am like a lonely bird on a housetop. Holman Christian Standard 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. 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English I am terrified and have been alone like a sparrow that flies on the rooftops. GOD'S WORD® Translation I lie awake. I am like a lonely bird on a rooftop. JPS Tanakh 1917 I watch, and am become Like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop. New American Standard 1977 I lie awake, I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop. Jubilee Bible 2000 I watch and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. King James 2000 Bible I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. American King James Version I watch, and am as a sparrow alone on the house top. American Standard Version I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top. Douay-Rheims Bible I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop. Darby Bible Translation I watch, and am like a sparrow alone upon the housetop. English Revised Version I watch, and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Young's Literal Translation I have watched, and I am As a bird alone on the roof. Study Bible The Prayer of the Afflicted…6I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins. 7I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop. 8All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule and curse me.… Cross References Psalm 77:4 You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak. Jeremiah 15:17 I never sat with the band of revelers, and I did not celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation. Treasury of Scripture I watch, and am as a sparrow alone on the house top. watch Psalm 22:2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but you hear not; and in the night … Psalm 77:4 You hold my eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. Psalm 130:6 My soul waits for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: … Deuteronomy 28:66,67 And your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear … Job 7:13-16 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints… Mark 14:33-37 And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore … alone Psalm 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen … Lamentations 3:28-30 He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it on him… (7) I watch--i.e., am sleepless, Sparrow.--See Note, Psalm 84:3. Here render, like a lonely bird. Some MSS. read, "a wandering bird." Verse 7. - I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. Sparrows are very common in Palestine. Dr. Thomson says that he has often heard a sparrow which had lost its mate, uttering "by the hour" its sad lament, seated upon a housetop ('The Land and the Book,' p. 43). I watch,.... Night after night, and take no sleep; cannot get any by reason of thoughtfulness, care, and trouble:and am as a sparrow alone upon the housetop; or, "as a bird" (o); for there is no necessity of limiting it to a sparrow, to which the account does not seem so well to agree; for sparrows will not only perch on housetops and solitary places, but will make their nests in dwelling houses, and in places of public resort, as temples; hence David speaks of the sparrow finding an house near the altars of God, Psalm 84:3 and Herodotus (p) makes mention of sparrows and other birds making their nests in the temple at Branchides; which may serve to illustrate the text last mentioned: wherefore this may be understood of any solitary bird, and especially of the owl (q); the Jews had flat roofs upon their houses, and here birds of solitude would come and sit alone in the night season, to which the psalmist likens himself; being either forsaken by his friends and acquaintance; or, being in melancholy circumstances, he chose to be alone, mourning over his sorrowful state and condition. (o) "sicut avis", Gejerus, Schmidt. (p) Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 159. (q) "--------tectoque prophanus Incubuit bubo" Ovid. Metamorph. l. 6. Fab. 8. "E tectis strix", &c. Tibullus, l. 1. Eleg. 5. v. 52. 102:1-11 The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but here, is often elsewhere, the Holy Ghost has put words into our mouths. Here is a prayer put into the hands of the afflicted; let them present it to God. Even good men may be almost overwhelmed with afflictions. It is our duty and interest to pray; and it is comfort to an afflicted spirit to unburden itself, by a humble representation of its griefs. We must say, Blessed be the name of the Lord, who both gives and takes away. The psalmist looked upon himself as a dying man; My days are like a shadow. 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