Psalm 68:6 Parallel Translations

God places lonely people in families. He leads prisoners out of prison into productive lives, but rebellious people must live in an unproductive land.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

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.

DBY:

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

ERV:

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity: but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

JPS:

God maketh the solitary to dwell in a house; He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity; the rebellious dwell but in a parched land.

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Psalm 68:6 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 69:33 For the LORD hears the needy And does not despise His who are prisoners.

Psalm 78:17 Yet they still continued to sin against Him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

Psalm 102:20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free those who were doomed to death,

Psalm 107:4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert region; They did not find a way to an inhabited city.

Psalm 107:10 There were those who dwelt in darkness and in the shadow of death, Prisoners in misery and chains,

Psalm 107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death And broke their bands apart.

Psalm 107:34 A fruitful land into a salt waste, Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Psalm 107:40 He pours contempt upon princes And makes them wander in a pathless waste.

Psalm 113:9 He makes the barren woman abide in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!

Psalm 146:7 Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free.

Acts 12:7 And behold, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter's side and woke him up, saying, "Get up quickly." And his chains fell off his hands.

Acts 16:26 and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were unfastened. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

68:6 God {d} setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a {e} dry [land].
(d) He gives children to those who are childless, and increases their families.
(e) Which is devoid of God's blessings, which before they had abused.

WES:

68:6 Rebellious - Those who rebel against God.

MHC:

68:1-6 None ever hardened his heart against God, and prospered. God is the joy of his people, then let them rejoice when they come before him. He who derives his being from none, but gives being to all, is engaged by promise and covenant to bless his people. He is to be praised as a God of mercy and tender compassion. He ever careth for the afflicted and oppressed: repenting sinners, who are helpless and exposed more than any fatherless children, are admitted into his family, and share all their blessings.

CONC:

Bound Bringeth Bringing Brings Causing Chains Desolate Dry Dwell Families Forth Free Friends Gives Home Inhabited Leads Lonely Makes Maketh Ones Parched Prisoners Prosperity Puts Rebellious Refractory Sets Setteth Singing Solitary Sun-scorched

Bound Causing Chains Dry Dwell Families Free Friends Gives Home House Lonely Makes Maketh Parched Prisoners Prosperity Puts Rebellious Sets Singing Solitary Sun-Scorched Turned

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