Psalms 102:7
I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone upon the house-top.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
In Context
6I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.
8My enemies reproach me all the day. Those who are mad against me do curse by me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:66And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee, and thou shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of thy life.
Job 30:29I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Psalms 38:11Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Psalms 130:6my soul for LORD more than watchmen for the morning, watchmen for the morning.
Mark 14:33And he takes Peter and James and John with him, and began to be greatly disturbed, and very distressed.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 102:2-12
Complaints in Affliction. 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord , and let my cry come unto thee. 2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth. 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7 I… Read the whole commentary →