Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

I have watched, and I am As a bird alone on 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.

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.

World English Bible

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

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Verse Info

Context Readings

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

6 I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places. 7 I have watched, and I am As a bird alone on the roof. 8 All the day mine enemies reproached me, Those mad at me have sworn against me.


Cross References

Psalm 77:4

Thou hast taken hold of the watches of mine eyes, I have been moved, and I speak not.

Psalm 38:11

My lovers and my friends over-against my plague stand. And my neighbours afar off have stood.

Deuteronomy 28:66-67

and thy life hath been hanging in suspense before thee, and thou hast been afraid by night and by day, and dost not believe in thy life;

Job 7:13-16

When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.

Psalm 22:2

My God, I call by day, and Thou answerest not, And by night, and there is no silence to me.

Psalm 130:6

My soul is for the Lord, More than those watching for morning, Watching for morning!

Lamentations 3:28-30

He sitteth alone, and is silent, For He hath laid it upon him.

Mark 14:33-37

and he taketh Peter, and James, and John with him, and began to be amazed, and to be very heavy,

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