Psalms 102:8
I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
In Context
7I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house.
9All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised me did swear against me.
Cross References
Psalms 31:11For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.
Psalms 55:3the same are darts.
Psalms 69:20Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame.
Psalms 89:51Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations:
Jeremiah 29:22And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Juda, that are in Babylon, saying: The Lord make thee like Sedecias, and like Achab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire :
Acts 7:54Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed with their teeth at him.
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 →