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 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 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.
Topics
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 102:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Affliction In Light Of Eternity
6
I am like a [mournful]
I am like a [desolate] owl of the wasteland.
I am sleepless and lie awake [mourning],
I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.
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].