I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
Parallel translations
- KJV I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
- BSB I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.
- NKJV I lie awake, And am like a sparrow alone on the housetop.
- NASB I lie awake, I have become like a solitary bird on a housetop.
- NLT I lie awake, lonely as a solitary bird on the roof.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 77:4You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
- Lam 3:28–30Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
- Mark 14:33–37He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
- Ps 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
- Job 7:13–16When I say, ‘My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;’
- Ps 22:2My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
- Ps 130:6My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.
- Deut 28:66–67Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.
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