Parallel Verses
King James 2000
God sets the solitary in families: he brings out those who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Holman Bible
He leads out the prisoners to prosperity,
but the rebellious live in a scorched land.
International Standard Version
God causes the lonely to dwell in families. He leads prisoners into prosperity, but rebels live on parched land.
A Conservative Version
God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners into prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
American Standard Version
God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
Amplified
God makes a home for the lonely;
He leads the prisoners into prosperity,
Only the stubborn and rebellious dwell in a parched land.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
God maketh the solitary into families; those that were bound he bringeth out into prosperity: but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
Julia Smith Translation
God setting the only ones in the house, bringing forth the bound into prosperities, but those turning away dwelt in a dry land.
Lexham Expanded Bible
God settles the lonely in a home; he brings prisoners out into prosperity. But the rebellious abide in a barren land.
Modern King James verseion
God causes the lonely to live at home; He brings out those who are bound with chains; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in a house, and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity, but letteth the renegades continue in scarceness.
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
The Emphasized Bible
God, is he that causeth the solitary to dwell in a home, That bringeth out prisoners into prosperity, But, the rebellious, have made their habitation in a sunburnt land.
Webster
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
World English Bible
God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
Youngs Literal Translation
God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have inhabited a dry place.
Themes
Chains » Used to confine prisoners
Rebellion » Against God, condemned
Rebellion against God » They who are guilty of » Impoverished for
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 68:6
Images Psalm 68:6
Prayers for Psalm 68:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Majestic Power
5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. 6 God sets the solitary in families: he brings out those who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land. 7 O God, when you went forth before your people, when you did march through the wilderness; Selah:
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 107:10
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and in irons;
Psalm 113:9
He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise you the LORD.
Psalm 107:34
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Psalm 107:14
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands asunder.
Psalm 146:7
Who executes justice for the oppressed: who gives food to the hungry. The LORD looses the prisoners:
1 Samuel 2:5
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased to hunger: so that the barren has borne seven; and she that has many children has grown feeble.
Deuteronomy 28:23-24
And your heaven that is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.
Psalm 69:33
For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.
Psalm 107:40-41
He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
Isaiah 61:1
The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked, and make her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and make her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Malachi 1:3
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the jackals of the wilderness.
Acts 12:6-25
And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the guards before the door kept the prison.
Acts 16:26
And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
Galatians 4:27
For it is written, Rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.