Psalms 102:7
I am sleepless; I am like a solitary bird upon the house-top.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
In Context
6I am like the pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl amid ruins.
8All the day long my enemies reproach me; They who rage against me curse by me.
Cross References
Job 30:29I am become a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
Psalms 38:11My friends and acquaintance keep aloof from my woe, And my kinsmen stand afar off:
Psalms 130:6My soul waiteth for the LORD More than they who watch for the morning; Yea, more than they who watch for the morning!
Mark 14:33And he taketh with him Peter and James and John; and began to be in great consternation and anguish.
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 →