Psalm 68:6 - The Scriptures 1998

⁶ Elohim makes a home for the lonely; He brings out into prosperity Those who are bound with chains; Only the rebellious shall dwell in a dry 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.

Psalm 68:6 Cross References

Psalm 10:14

You have seen it, for You observe trouble and grief, To repay with Your hand. The poor commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 107:10

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Bound in affliction and irons,

Psalm 107:14

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And He broke their chains in pieces.

Psalm 107:34

A land of fruit becomes a salty desert, For the evil of those who dwell in it.

Psalm 113:9

Causing the barren woman to dwell in a house, A rejoicing mother of children. Praise Yah!

Psalm 146:7

Doing right-ruling for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry. יהוה  releases those who are bound,

Psalm 69:33

For יהוה  hears the poor, And He shall not despise His captives.

Proverbs 23:11

For their Redeemer is strong; He shall plead their cause against you.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Master יהוה  is upon Me, because יהוה  has anointed Me to bring good news to the meek. He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound,

Hosea 2:3

lest I strip her naked, and shall set her up as on the day she was born, and shall make her like a wilderness, and shall set her like a dry land, and shall put her to death with thirst.

Malachi 1:3

but I have hated Ě

Acts 16:26

And suddenly a great earthquake took place, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened and all the chains came loose.

Galatians 4:27

For it has been written, “Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who do not have birth pains! For the deserted one has many more children than she who has a husband.”

Deuteronomy 10:18

“He executes right-ruling for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and a garment.

1 Samuel 2:5

“The satisfied have hired themselves out for bread, and the hungry have ceased. Even the barren has borne seven, and she who has many children pines away.