Psalms 68:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.”
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“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.”
King James Version · Public Domain“God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“God--causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only--the refractory have inhabited a dry place.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 68:6 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 10:18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
- Deuteronomy 28:23The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
- 1 Samuel 2:5The 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.
- Psalms 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
- Psalms 69:33For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
- Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
- Psalms 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.
- Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
- Psalms 107:40He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- Psalms 113:9He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
- Psalms 146:7He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
- Proverbs 23:11for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
- Isaiah 61:1The 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,
- Hosea 2:3Otherwise, 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 1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
- Acts 12:6On 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.
- Acts 16:26Suddenly a strong earthquake shook the foundations of the prison. At once all the doors flew open and everyone’s chains came loose.
- Galatians 4:27For 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.”
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