Psalms 102:7
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Updated King James 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 like an owl of the desert.
8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:66And your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of your life:
Job 30:29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Psalms 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand far off.
Psalms 130:6My soul waits for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Mark 14:33And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
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 →