Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. 6 God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land. 7 God, when you went forth before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 107:10
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
Psalm 113:9
He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD.
Psalm 107:34
and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Psalm 107:14
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in sunder.
Psalm 146:7
who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.
1 Samuel 2:5
Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Even the barren has borne seven, and she who has many children languishes.
Deuteronomy 28:23-24
Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.
Psalm 69:33
For the LORD hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive people.
Psalm 107:40-41
He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the LORD is on me; because he has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and an opening of the eyes to those who are bound;
Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
Malachi 1:3
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
Acts 12:6-25
The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
Acts 16:26
Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were loosened.
Galatians 4:27
For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who do not bear. Break forth and shout, you that do not travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."