Psalm 68:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You find families for those who are lonely. You set prisoners free and let them prosper, but all who rebel will live in a scorching desert.

Cross References

Psalm 10:14

But you see the trouble and the distress, and you will do something. The poor can count on you, and so can orphans.

Psalm 107:10

Some of you were prisoners suffering in deepest darkness and bound by chains,

Psalm 107:14

He brought you out of the deepest darkness and broke your chains.

Psalm 107:34

flowing streams into scorched land, and fruitful fields into beds of salt.

Psalm 113:9

When a wife has no children, he blesses her with some, and she is happy. Shout praises to the LORD!

Psalm 146:7

He gives justice to the poor and food to the hungry. The LORD sets prisoners free

Psalm 69:33

The LORD will listen when the homeless cry out, and he will never forget his people in prison.

Proverbs 23:11

God All-Powerful is there to defend them against you.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the LORD God has taken control of me! The LORD has chosen and sent me to tell the oppressed the good news, to heal the brokenhearted, and to announce freedom for prisoners and captives.

Hosea 2:3

or I will strip her naked like the day she was born. I will make her barren like a desert, and she will die of thirst.

Malachi 1:3

instead of Esau. And I turned Esau's hill country into a barren desert where jackals roam.

Acts 16:26

Suddenly a strong earthquake shook the jail to its foundations. The doors opened, and the chains fell from all the prisoners.

Galatians 4:27

The Scriptures say about her, “You have never had children, but now you can be glad. You have never given birth, but now you can shout. Once you had no children, but now you will have more children than a woman who has been married for a long time.”

Deuteronomy 10:18

The LORD defends the rights of orphans and widows. He cares for foreigners and gives them food and clothing.

1 Samuel 2:5

People who once had plenty to eat must now hire themselves out for only a piece of bread. But you give the hungry more than enough to eat. A woman did not have a child, and you gave her seven, but a woman who had many was left with none.