Psalm 68:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Psalm 10:14

You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

Psalm 107:10

Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

Psalm 107:14

He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

Psalm 107:34

He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

Psalm 113:9

He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

Psalm 146:7

Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

Psalm 69:33

For the ears of the Lord are open to the poor, and he takes thought for his prisoners.

Proverbs 23:11

For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.

Isaiah 61:1

The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;

Hosea 2:3

For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

Malachi 1:3

And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.

Acts 16:26

And suddenly there was an earth-shock, so that the base of the prison was moved: and all the doors came open, and everyone's chains came off.

Galatians 4:27

For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

Deuteronomy 10:18

Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.