Psalm 68:6 “God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to pros…”

Psalm 68:6

God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

World English Bible

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

American Standard Version

God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

Geneva Bible 1599

God maketh the solitarie to dwell in families, and deliuereth them that were prisoners in stocks: but the rebellious shall dwell in a dry land.

Darby Translation

God maketh the solitary into families; those that were bound he bringeth out into prosperity: but the rebellious dwell in a parched [land].

Young's Literal Translation

God — causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only — the refractory have inhabited a dry place.

Bible in Basic English

Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.

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Cross references

“God”

Psalm 113:9 Psalm 107:10 Galatians 4:27 1 Samuel 2:5 Psalm 107:41

Psalm 113:9 · BSB

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!

Psalm 107:10 · BSB

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

Galatians 4:27 · BSB

For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”

1 Samuel 2:5 · BSB

The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.

Psalm 107:41 · BSB

But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.

“he bringeth”

Isaiah 61:1 Psalm 107:14 Psalm 146:7 Acts 12:6–25

Isaiah 61:1 · BSB

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

Psalm 107:14 · BSB

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.

Psalm 146:7 · BSB

He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,

Acts 12:6–25 · BSB

On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.

“the rebellious”

Psalm 107:34 Hosea 2:3 Malachi 1:3 Psalm 107:40 Deuteronomy 28:23 Deuteronomy 28:24

Psalm 107:34 · BSB

and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

Hosea 2:3 · BSB

Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

Malachi 1:3 · BSB

but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals. ”

Psalm 107:40 · BSB

He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

Deuteronomy 28:23 · BSB

The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

Deuteronomy 28:24 · BSB

The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Also

Psalm 69:33 Acts 16:26

Psalm 69:33 · BSB

For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.

Acts 16:26 · BSB

Suddenly a strong earthquake shook the foundations of the prison. At once all the doors flew open and everyone’s chains came loose.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.

7O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the wasteland, Selah

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