Psalms 102:7
I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
In Context
6I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
8All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:66So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.
Job 30:29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
Psalms 38:11My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
Psalms 130:6My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning—more than watchmen wait for the morning.
Mark 14:33He took with Him Peter, James, and John, and began to be deeply troubled and 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 →