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The Prayer of the Afflicted

Psalms 102:7

In 11 translations

BSB
I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.
KJV
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
WEB
I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
ASV
I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.
LSV
I have watched, and I am || As a bird alone on the roof.
YLT
I have watched, and I am As a bird alone on the roof.
DBY
I watch, and am like a sparrow alone upon the housetop.
DRC101:8
I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.
GNV
I watch and am as a sparrowe alone vpon the house top.
JPS102:8
I watch, and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.
LXXE101:8
I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof.

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Original-language editions

WLC102:8
שָׁקַ֥דְתִּי וָאֶֽהְיֶ֑ה כְּ֝צִפּ֗וֹר בּוֹדֵ֥ד עַל־גָּֽג׃KJV:Ps.102.7
LXX-Br101:8
Ἠγρύπνησα, καὶ ἐγενήθην ὡσεὶ στρουθίον μονάζον ἐπὶ δώματι.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 77:4You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.
  • Lamentations 3:28–30Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him. Let him bury his face in the dust— perhaps there is still hope. Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
  • Mark 14:33–37He took with Him Peter, James, and John, and began to be deeply troubled and distressed. Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch.” Going a little farther,…
  • Job 7:13–16When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint, then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions, so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body. I loathe my…
  • Psalms 38:11My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
  • Deuteronomy 28:66–67So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival. In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were…
  • Psalms 22:2I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
  • Psalms 130:6My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning— more than watchmen wait for the morning.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 102:8 in some Bibles
  • 102:7 in most Bibles

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