Verse 7

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 77:4 : 4 You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.
• Ps 38:11 : 11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
• Deut 28:66-67 : 66 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life. 67 In the morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
• Job 7:13-16 : 13 When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;' 14 Then you scar me with dreams, And terrify me through visions: 15 So that my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones. 16 I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone; for my days are but a breath.
• Ps 22:2 : 2 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.
• Ps 130:6 : 6 My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; More than watchmen for the morning.
• Lam 3:28-30 : 28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him. 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. 30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.
• Mark 14:33-37 : 33 He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed. 34 He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch." 35 He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him. 36 He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire." 37 He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you watch one hour?