Psalm 113:9 {112:9}
Good News Translation
He honors the childless wife in her home; he makes her happy by giving her children. Praise the LORD!

New Revised Standard Version
He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the LORD!

Contemporary English Version
When a wife has no children, he blesses her with some, and she is happy. Shout praises to the LORD!

New American Bible
Gives the childless wife a home, the joyful mother of children. Hallelujah!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.

maketh

Psalm 68:6 God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that provoke, that dwell in sepulchres.

Genesis 21:5-7 When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac born. . . .

Genesis 25:21 And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.

Genesis 30:22,23 The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb. . . .

1 Samuel 2:5 They that were full before, have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened.

Isaiah 54:1 Give praise, O thou barren, that bearest not: sing forth praise, and make a joyful noise, thou that didst not travail with child: for many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband, saith the Lord.

Luke 1:13-15 But the angel said to him: Fear not, Zachary, for thy prayer is heard: and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son. And thou shalt call his name John. . . .

Galatians 4:27 For it is written: Rejoice, thou barren, that bearest not: break forth and cry thou that travailest not: for many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband.

keep house.

Context
The LORD Exalts the Humble
8That he may place him with princes, with the princes of his people. 9Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5
They that were full before, have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened.

Psalm 68:6
God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that provoke, that dwell in sepulchres.

Psalm 107:41
And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families like a flock of sheep.

Psalm 127:3
Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.

Isaiah 54:1
Give praise, O thou barren, that bearest not: sing forth praise, and make a joyful noise, thou that didst not travail with child: for many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband, saith the Lord.

Psalm 113:8
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