Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
He
Only
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.
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.
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 Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation. 6 God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have inhabited a dry place. 7 O God, in Thy going forth before Thy people, In Thy stepping through the wilderness, Selah.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 107:10
Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron,
Psalm 113:9
Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!
Psalm 107:34
A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.
Psalm 107:14
He bringeth them out from the dark place, And death-shade, And their bands He draweth away.
Psalm 146:7
Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.
1 Samuel 2:5
The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.
Deuteronomy 28:23-24
And thy heavens which are over thy head have been brass, and the earth which is under thee iron;
Psalm 69:33
For Jehovah hearkeneth unto the needy, And His bound ones He hath not despised.
Psalm 107:40-41
He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy -- no way.
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.
Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as in the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.
Malachi 1:3
Is not Esau Jacob's brother? -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.
Acts 12:6-25
and when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison,
Acts 16:26
and suddenly a great earthquake came, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, opened also presently were all the doors, and of all -- the bands were loosed;
Galatians 4:27
for it hath been written, 'Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many are the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.'