Psalms 68:6

Psalms 68:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
• New International Version (NIV)God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
• English Standard Version (ESV)God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
• New King James Version (NKJV)God sets the solitary in families; He brings out those who are bound into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Context of Psalms 68:6

4Sing to God! Sing praises to His name. Exalt Him who rides on the clouds— His name is the LORD— and rejoice before Him. 5A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation. God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land. 7O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the wasteland, Selah 8the earth shook and the heavens poured down rain before God, the One on Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.

Psalms 68:6 word by word

אֱלֹהִ֤ים׀ מ֘וֹשִׁ֤יב יְחִידִ֨ים׀ בַּ֗יְתָה מוֹצִ֣יא אֲ֭סִירִים בַּכּוֹשָׁר֑וֹת אַ֥ךְ ס֝וֹרֲרִ֗ים שָׁכְנ֥וּ צְחִיחָֽה׃Read the interlinear

• Godאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430
• settlesיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• the lonelyיָחִידyâchîyd · onlyH3173
• in familiesבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• He leadsיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: sendH3318
• the prisoners outאָסִיר'âsîyr · prisonerH615
• to prosperityכּוֹשָׁרָהkôshârâh · prosperityH3574
• butאַךְ'ak · surelyH389
• the rebelliousסָרַרsârar · to rebelH5637
• dwellשָׁכַןshâkan · to dwellH7931
• in a sun-scorchedצְחִיחָהtsechîychâh · parchedH6707

Cross-references for Psalms 68:6

• Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
• Psalms 113:9He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
• 1 Samuel 2:5The 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.
• Galatians 4:27For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
• Psalms 146:7He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
• Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
• Acts 12:6On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.
• Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
• Deuteronomy 28:23The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
• Hosea 2:3Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
• Malachi 1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

Commentaries on Psalms 68:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6The solitary in families - יחדים yechidim, the single persons. Is not the meaning, God is the Author of marriage; and children, the legal fruit of it, are an inheritance from him?Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6God setteth the solitary in families - Margin, as in Hebrew, in a house. The word rendered solitary means properly one alone, as an only child; Genesis 22:2, Genesis 22:12, Genesis 22:16; and then it means alone, solitary, wretched, forsaken. See the notes at Psalm 22:20. The word rendered “families” would be more literally and better translated as in the margin, houses. The idea then is, not that he constitutes families of those who were solitary and…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6God freed Israel from slavery in Egypt (Exodus 20:2; see Psalm 69:33), and he continues to free prisoners today. The sun-scorched land represents being far from God and separated from blessing.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-65-6. are illustrated by the protection to the helpless, vindication of the innocent, and punishment of rebels, ascribed to Him.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 68:6

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Blessing
• Chains
• Wicked (People)

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Commentaries on Psalms 68

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings