Psalms 102:7
I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.
American Standard 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 am become as an owl of the waste places.
8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:66and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life.
Job 30:29I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
Psalms 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.
Psalms 130:6My soul [waiteth] for the Lord More than watchmen [wait] for the morning; [Yea, more than] watchmen for the morning.
Mark 14:33And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly amazed, and sore troubled.
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 →