New Revised Standard Version
I lie awake; I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.

Contemporary English Version
or a restless sparrow alone on a roof.

New American Bible
I lie awake and moan, like a lone sparrow on the roof.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.

I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.

watch

Psalm 22:2 O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.

Psalm 77:4 My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not.

Psalm 130:6 From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:66,67 And thy life shall be as it were hanging before thee. Thou shalt fear night and day, neither shalt thou trust thy life. . . .

Job 7:13-16 If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved, speaking with myself on my couch: . . .

Mark 14:33-37 And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to fear and to be heavy. . . .

alone

Psalm 38:11 My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off:

Lamentations 3:28-30 Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself. . . .