Psalms 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.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 68 connects to 10 cross-references. A processional psalm of David celebrating God's march from Sinai to Zion as divine warrior. It opens with the ancient war cry of Numbers 10 and catalogs God's care for orphans, widows, and prisoners. The psalm ends with kings bringing …
Other Translations
God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
God--causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only--the refractory have inhabited a dry place.
Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.
Cross References
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be …
The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, …
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren …
For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.