Psalm 68:6 {67:7}
Good News Translation
He gives the lonely a home to live in and leads prisoners out into happy freedom, but rebels will have to live in a desolate land.

New Revised Standard Version
God gives the desolate a home to live in; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious live in a parched land.

Contemporary English Version
You find families for those who are lonely. You set prisoners free and let them prosper, but all who rebel will live in a scorching desert.

New American Bible
God gives a home to the forsaken, who leads prisoners out to prosperity, while rebels live in the desert.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

God

Psalm 107:10,41 Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron. . . .

Psalm 113:9 Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.

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.

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.

families [heb.

Psalm 107:10,14 Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron. . . .

Psalm 146:7 Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered:

Isaiah 61:1 The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.

Acts 12:6 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.

the rebellious

Psalm 107:34,40 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:23,24 Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou treadest on, of iron. . . .

Hosea 2:3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land that none can pass through and will kill her with drought.

Malachi 1:3 But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert.

Context
God's Enemies Are Scattered
5Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place: 6God 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.7O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when thou didst pass through the desert:…
Cross References
Acts 12:7
And behold an angel of the Lord stood by him and a light shined in the room. And he, striking Peter on the side, raised him up, saying: Arise quickly. And the chains fell off from his hands.

Acts 16:26
And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened and the bands of all were loosed.

Psalm 69:33
For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.

Psalm 78:17
And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.

Psalm 102:20
That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:

Psalm 107:4
They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation.

Psalm 107:10
Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.

Psalm 107:14
And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in sunder.

Psalm 107:34
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Psalm 107:40
Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.

Psalm 113:9
Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.

Psalm 146:7
Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered:

Psalm 68:5
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