Psalm 68:6


God makes a home for the lonely;
He leads the prisoners into prosperity,
Only the stubborn and rebellious dwell in a parched land.

Psalm 107:10


Some dwelt in darkness and in the deep (deathly) darkness,
Prisoners [bound] in misery and chains,

Psalm 113:9


He makes the barren woman live in the house
As a joyful mother of children.
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

Psalm 107:34


A productive land into a [barren] salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Psalm 107:14


He brought them out of darkness and the deep (deathly) darkness
And broke their bonds apart.

Psalm 146:7


Who executes justice for the oppressed,
Who gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets free the prisoners.

1 Samuel 2:5


“Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,
But those who were hungry cease [to hunger].
Even the barren [woman] gives birth to seven,
But she who has many children withers away.

Deuteronomy 28:23-24

The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze [giving no rain and blocking all prayers], and the earth which is under you, iron [hard to plow and yielding no produce].

Psalm 69:33


For the Lord hears the needy
And does not despise His who are prisoners.

Psalm 107:40-41


He pours contempt on princes
And makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
Because the Lord has anointed and commissioned me
To bring good news to the humble and afflicted;
He has sent me to bind up [the wounds of] the brokenhearted,
To proclaim release [from confinement and condemnation] to the [physical and spiritual] captives
And freedom to prisoners,

Hosea 2:3


Or I will strip her naked
And expose her as on the day she was born,
And make her like a wilderness
And make her like a parched land
And slay her with thirst.

Malachi 1:3

but [in comparison with My love for Jacob] I have hated Esau (Edom), and I have made his mountains a wasteland, and have given his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.”

Acts 12:6-25

The very night before Herod was to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries were in front of the door guarding the prison.

Acts 16:26

suddenly there was a great earthquake, so [powerful] that the very foundations of the prison were shaken and at once all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened.

Galatians 4:27

For it is written [in the Scriptures],

Rejoice, o barren woman who has not given birth;
Break forth into a [joyful] shout, you who are not in labor;
For the desolate woman has many more children
Than she who has a husband.”

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

God

Psalm 107:10

Some dwelt in darkness and in the deep (deathly) darkness,
Prisoners [bound] in misery and chains,
Psalm 113:9

He makes the barren woman live in the house
As a joyful mother of children.
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
1 Samuel 2:5

“Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,
But those who were hungry cease [to hunger].
Even the barren [woman] gives birth to seven,
But she who has many children withers away.
Galatians 4:27
For it is written [in the Scriptures],

Rejoice, o barren woman who has not given birth;
Break forth into a [joyful] shout, you who are not in labor;
For the desolate woman has many more children
Than she who has a husband.”

He bringeth

Psalm 107:10

Some dwelt in darkness and in the deep (deathly) darkness,
Prisoners [bound] in misery and chains,
Psalm 146:7

Who executes justice for the oppressed,
Who gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets free the prisoners.
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
Because the Lord has anointed and commissioned me
To bring good news to the humble and afflicted;
He has sent me to bind up [the wounds of] the brokenhearted,
To proclaim release [from confinement and condemnation] to the [physical and spiritual] captives
And freedom to prisoners,
Acts 12:6
The very night before Herod was to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries were in front of the door guarding the prison.

The rebellious

Psalm 107:34

A productive land into a [barren] salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Deuteronomy 28:23
The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze [giving no rain and blocking all prayers], and the earth which is under you, iron [hard to plow and yielding no produce].
Hosea 2:3

Or I will strip her naked
And expose her as on the day she was born,
And make her like a wilderness
And make her like a parched land
And slay her with thirst.
Malachi 1:3
but [in comparison with My love for Jacob] I have hated Esau (Edom), and I have made his mountains a wasteland, and have given his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.”

General references

Numbers 27:6
Then the Lord said to Moses,