Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation. 6 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. 7 O God, when thou wentest forth before the people, when thou wentest through the wilderness, Selah,
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 107:10
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being fast bound in misery and iron,
Psalm 113:9
Which maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!
Psalm 107:34
A fruitful land maketh he barren, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Psalm 107:14
He brought them out of darkness, and out of the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in sunder.
Psalm 146:7
who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong; who feedeth the hungry. The LORD looseth men out of prison;
1 Samuel 2:5
They that were full, have hired out themselves for bread, and they that were hungry cease so to be: insomuch that the barren hath borne seven, and she that had many children is waxed feeble.
Deuteronomy 28:23-24
"And the heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee, iron.
Psalm 69:33
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
Psalm 107:40-41
though he suffer them to be evil-entreated through tyrants, or let them wander out of the way in the wilderness,
Isaiah 61:1
The spirit of the LORD God is with me, for the LORD hath anointed me, and sent me to preach good tidings unto the poor: that I might bind up the wounded hearts, that I might preach deliverance to the captive, and open the prison to them that are bound;
Hosea 2:3
If no, I shall strip her naked, and set her, even as she came into the world. Yea, I shall lay her waste, and make her like a wilderness, and slay her for thirst.
Malachi 1:3
and hated Esau: Yea I have made his hills waste, and his heritage a wilderness for dragons."
Acts 12:6-25
And when Herod would have brought him out unto the people, the same night slept Peter between two soldiers, bound with two chains; And the keepers before the door kept the prison.
Acts 16:26
And suddenly, there was a great earthquake, so that the foundation of the prison was shaken, and by and by all the doors opened, and every man's bonds were loosed.
Galatians 4:27
For it is written, "Rejoice thou barren, that bearest no children: break forth and cry, thou that travailest not. For the desolate hath many more children, than she which hath a husband."