Tree of Life Version
Psalms 102:8
8I lie awake, like a lonely bird on a roof.
Psalms 102:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
- New International Version (NIV)All day long my enemies taunt me; those who rail against me use my name as a curse.
- English Standard Version (ESV)All the day my enemies taunt me; those who deride me use my name for a curse.
- New King James Version (NKJV)My enemies reproach me all day long; Those who deride me swear an oath against me.
Context of Psalms 102:8
6Because of the sound of my groaning, my bones cling to my flesh. 7I am like a pelican of the desert, like an owl of the waste places. I lie awake, like a lonely bird on a roof. 9My enemies taunt me all day. My deriders use my name to curse. 10For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears—
Read all of Psalms 102Psalms 102:8 word by word
כָּל־הַ֭יּוֹם חֵרְפ֣וּנִי אוֹיְבָ֑י מְ֝הוֹלָלַ֗י בִּ֣י נִשְׁבָּֽעוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 102:8
- Psalms 31:11For my life is consumed in sorrow and my years in sighing. My strength fails because of my anguish and my bones waste away.
- Psalms 55:3Listen to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint and moan—
- Psalms 69:9I have become a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother’s children.
- Psalms 89:51Remember, my Lord, the mockery against Your servants that I bear in my heart from so many peoples.
- Romans 15:3For even Messiah did not please Himself, but as it is written, “The insults of those who insulted You have fallen on Me.”
- Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in an uproar, and the peoples mutter vanity?
- Luke 6:11But they were filled with fury and discussed among themselves what they might do to Yeshua.
- Acts 7:54When they heard these things, they became enraged and began gnashing their teeth at him.
- Acts 16:11So we put out to sea from Troas and made a straight course for Samothrace, the next day on to Neapolis,
- Acts 23:12When it was day, the Judean leaders formed a conspiracy. They bound themselves by an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
Commentaries on Psalms 102:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8They that are mad against me are sworn against me - The Chaldeans are determined to destroy us; and they have bound themselves by oath to do it. See a similar case related Acts 23:12-14, where a number of Jews had bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had slain Paul.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Mine enemies reproach me all the day - Continually. They reproach me as one of thy people; or, I bear reproaches in common with others, and it becomes to me a personal matter, so entirely are my feelings and interests identified with those of thy people. Perhaps there were also, mingled with this, personal reproaches and calumnies. And they that are mad against me - Angry; excited even to madness. Are sworn against me - literally, “swear by me,” or…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-8The psalmist cannot sleep (see Psalm 63:6–8). Like a lone bird on a housetop, he feels alone and separated from both friends (see Psalm 88:8) and enemies.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. sworn against me--or literally, "by me," wishing others as miserable as I am (Nu 5:21).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 102
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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