Teks -- Psalms 102:7 (NET)

102:7 I stay awake; I am like a solitary bird on a roof.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Psa 102:6-7

The figures express extreme loneliness.

Clarke: Psa 102:7 - As a sparrow alone

As a sparrow alone - צפור tsippor , seems to be often used for any small bird, such as the swallow, sparrow, or the like. Bochart supposes the screech owl is intended.

TSK: Psa 102:7 - watch // alone

watch : Psa 22:2, Psa 77:4, Psa 130:6; Deu 28:66, Deu 28:67; Job 7:13-16; Mar 14:33-37

alone : Psa 38:11; Lam 3:28-30

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Psa 102:7

A sparrow which hath lost its mate , and then is very sad and solitary, as some report; although that be uncertain and improbable. But this Hebrew word doth not only signify a sparrow, but in general any bird , as Lev 14:4 Deu 14:11 Dan 4:12,14,21 . And so it may here design any one or more sort of birds which used to sit alone, watching and mourning upon house-tops.

Gill: Psa 102:7 - I watch // and am as a sparrow alone upon the housetop

I watch,.... Night after night, and take no sleep; cannot get any by reason of thoughtfulness, care, and trouble:

and am as a sparrow alone upon the housetop; or, "as a bird" ^o; for there is no necessity of limiting it to a sparrow, to which the account does not seem so well to agree; for sparrows will not only perch on housetops and solitary places, but will make their nests in dwelling houses, and in places of public resort, as temples; hence David speaks of the sparrow finding an house near the altars of God, Psa 84:3 and Herodotus ^p makes mention of sparrows and other birds making their nests in the temple at Branchides; which may serve to illustrate the text last mentioned: wherefore this may be understood of any solitary bird, and especially of the owl ^q; the Jews had flat roofs upon their houses, and here birds of solitude would come and sit alone in the night season, to which the psalmist likens himself; being either forsaken by his friends and acquaintance; or, being in melancholy circumstances, he chose to be alone, mourning over his sorrowful state and condition.