Parallel Verses
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 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.
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 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 to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy palace. 6 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. 7 O God, when you lead your people into battle, when you march through the desert, (Selah)
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 107:10
They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,
Psalm 113:9
He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord!
Psalm 107:34
and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
Psalm 107:14
He brought them out of the utter darkness, and tore off their shackles.
Psalm 146:7
vindicates the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry. The Lord releases the imprisoned.
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.
Deuteronomy 28:23-24
The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.
Psalm 69:33
For the Lord listens to the needy; he does not despise his captive people.
Psalm 107:40-41
He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.
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 12:6-25
On that very night before Herod was going to bring him out for trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, while guards in front of the door were keeping watch over the prison.
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."