Psalm 68:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ God gives the desolate a home to live in; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious live in a parched land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out those which are bound with chains: But the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ God places the solitary in families and gives the desolate a home in which to dwell; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

Common English Bible

⁶ God settles the lonely in their homes; he sets prisoners free with happiness, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:

Psalm 68:6 Cross References

Psalm 10:14

But you do see! Indeed, you note trouble and grief, that you may take it into your hands; the helpless commit themselves to you; you have been the helper of the orphan.

Psalm 107:10

Some sat in darkness and in gloom, prisoners in misery and in irons,

Psalm 107:14

he brought them out of darkness and gloom, and broke their bonds apart.

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Psalm 113:9

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous 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;

Psalm 69:33

For the Lord hears the needy and does not despise his own who are in bonds.

Proverbs 23:11

for their vindicator is strong; he will plead their cause against you.

Isaiah 61:1

The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners,

Hosea 2:3

or I will strip her naked and expose her as in the day she was born and make her like a wilderness and turn her into a parched land and kill her with thirst.

Malachi 1:3

but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.

Acts 16:26

Suddenly there was an earthquake so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened.

Galatians 4:27

For it is written, “Rejoice, you childless one, you who bear no children, burst into song and shout, you who endure no birth pangs, for the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than the children of the one who is married.”

Deuteronomy 10:18

who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry are fat with spoil. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.