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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)God places the lonely in families; he sets the prisoners free and gives them joy. But he makes the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.

Context of Psalms 68:6

4Sing to God, sing in praise of his name, extol him who rides on the clouds; rejoice before him—his name is the Lord. 5A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land. 7When you, God, went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, 8the earth shook, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of 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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Godאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430
• settethיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• the solitaryיָחִידyâchîyd · onlyH3173
• in familiesבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• he bringeth outיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: sendH3318
• those which are boundאָסִיר'âsîyr · prisonerH615
• with chainsכּוֹשָׁרָהkôshârâh · prosperityH3574
• but the rebelliousסָרַרsârar · to rebelH5637
• dwellשָׁכַןshâkan · to dwellH7931
• in a dryצְחִיחָהtsechîychâh · parchedH6707

Cross-references for Psalms 68:6

• Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness, in utter darkness, prisoners suffering in iron chains,
• Psalms 113:9He settles the childless woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord.
• 1 Samuel 2:5Those who were full hire themselves out for food, but those who were hungry are hungry no more. She who was barren has borne seven children, but she who has had many sons pines away.
• Galatians 4:27For it is written: “Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
• Psalms 146:7He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets prisoners free,
• Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,
• Acts 12:6The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance.
• Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.
• Deuteronomy 28:23The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.
• Hosea 2:3Otherwise I will strip her naked and make her as bare as on the day she was born; I will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her with thirst.
• Malachi 1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into 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