Psalm 68:6

New English Translation

God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity. But sinful rebels live in the desert.

Cross References

Psalm 10:14

You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; you deliver the fatherless.

Psalm 107:10

They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,

Psalm 107:14

He brought them out of the utter darkness, and tore off their shackles.

Psalm 107:34

and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

Psalm 113:9

He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 146:7

vindicates the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry. The Lord releases the imprisoned.

Psalm 69:33

For the Lord listens to the needy; he does not despise his captive people.

Proverbs 23:11

for their Protector is strong; he will plead their case against you.

Isaiah 61:1

The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,

Hosea 2:3

Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill her with thirst.

Malachi 1:3

and rejected Esau. I turned Esau’s mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals.”

Acts 16:26

Suddenly a great earthquake occurred, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. Immediately all the doors flew open, and the bonds of all the prisoners came loose.

Galatians 4:27

For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.”

Deuteronomy 10:18

who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman gives birth to seven, but the one with many children withers away.