Psalm 113:9
New International Version
He settles the childless woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD.

New Living Translation
He gives the childless woman a family, making her a happy mother. Praise the LORD!

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

Berean Standard Bible
He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!

King James Bible
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.

New King James Version
He grants the barren woman a home, Like a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!

New American Standard Bible
He has the infertile woman live in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!

NASB 1995
He makes the barren woman abide in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!

NASB 1977
He makes the barren woman abide in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!

Legacy Standard Bible
He makes the barren woman of the house sit As a glad mother of children. Praise Yah!

Amplified Bible
He makes the barren woman live in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!)

Christian Standard Bible
He gives the childless woman a household, making her the joyful mother of children. Hallelujah!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He gives the childless woman a household, making her the joyful mother of children. Hallelujah!

American Standard Version
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, And to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye Jehovah.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He puts a sterile woman in a household and she is a cheerful mother of children!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
who settles the barren woman in a house, as a mother rejoicing over children.

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

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

English Revised Version
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He makes a woman who is in a childless home a joyful mother. Hallelujah!

Good News Translation
He honors the childless wife in her home; he makes her happy by giving her children. Praise the LORD!

International Standard Version
He makes the barren woman among her household a happy mother of joyful children. Hallelujah!

JPS Tanakh 1917
Who maketh the barren woman to dwell in her house As a joyful mother of children. Hallelujah.

Literal Standard Version
Causing the barren one of the house to sit, | A joyful mother of sons; praise YAH!

Majority Standard Bible
He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!

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

NET Bible
He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of 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!

New Heart English Bible
He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.

World English Bible
He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

Young's Literal Translation
Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The LORD Exalts the Humble
8to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people. 9He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!

Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.

Psalm 68:6
God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

Psalm 107:41
But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.

Psalm 127:3
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

Isaiah 54:1
"Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband," says the LORD.


Treasury of Scripture

He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise you the LORD.

maketh

Psalm 68:6
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Genesis 21:5-7
And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him…

Genesis 25:21
And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

keep house.

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Psalm 113
1. An exhortation to praise God for his excellence
6. For his mercy














(9) He maketh.--See margin. Motherhood alone assured the wife of a fixed and dignified position in her husband's house. The quotation from Hannah's song suggested the allusion to her story. We are no doubt right in taking this joyful mother as emblematic of the nation itself restored to prosperity and joy.

Verse 9. - He maketh the barren woman to keep house. Hannah's song is still in the psalmist's thoughts, and suggests this illustration (see 1 Samuel 2:5). But it must not be restricted to a literal interpretation. The true "barren woman" was Israel (Isaiah 54:1), whose curse of barrenness was ultimately removed, and who became, as here prophesied, a joyful mother of children (comp. Isaiah 49:12, 18, 20; Isaiah 54:2, 3; Isaiah 60:5; Galatians 4:27). Praise ye the Lord (comp. Psalm 104, 105, 106, 115, 116, 117, 135, 146-150, which terminate similarly).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He settles
מֽוֹשִׁיבִ֨י ׀ (mō·wō·šî·ḇî)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

the barren woman
עֲקֶ֬רֶת (‘ă·qe·reṯ)
Adjective - feminine singular construct
Strong's 6135: Sterile

in her home,
הַבַּ֗יִת (hab·ba·yiṯ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

as a joyful
שְׂמֵחָ֗ה (śə·mê·ḥāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 8056: Glad, joyful, merry

mother
אֵֽם־ (’êm-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 517: A mother, )

to her children.
הַבָּנִ֥ים (hab·bā·nîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

Hallelujah!
הַֽלְלוּ־ (hal·lū-)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 1984: To shine


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