Parallel Verses

Amplified


I am sleepless and lie awake [mourning],
I have become like a lonely bird on a 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.

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.

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 like a [mournful] vulture of the wilderness;
I am like a [desolate] owl of the wasteland.
7 
I am sleepless and lie awake [mourning],
I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.
8
My enemies taunt me all day long;
Those who ridicule me use my name as a curse.


Cross References

Psalm 77:4


You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Psalm 38:11


My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague;
And my neighbors stand far away.

Deuteronomy 28:66-67

Your life will hang in doubt before you; night and day you will be filled with anxiety and have no assurance of living.

Job 7:13-16


“When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’

Psalm 22:2


O my God, I call out by day, but You do not answer;
And by night, but I find no rest nor quiet.

Psalm 130:6


My soul waits for the Lord
More than the watchmen for the morning;
More than the watchmen for the morning.

Lamentations 3:28-30


Let him sit alone [in hope] and keep quiet,
Because God has laid it on him [for his benefit].

Mark 14:33-37

He took Peter and James and John with Him, and He began to be deeply distressed and troubled [extremely anguished at the prospect of what was to come].

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