He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
Parallel translations
- WEB He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
- KJV He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
- NKJV He grants the barren woman a home, Like a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord!
- NASB He has the infertile woman live in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord!
- NLT He gives the childless woman a family, making her a happy mother. Praise the Lord!
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Quick answer
God gives the barren woman a home as a joyful mother of children. He turns reproach into rejoicing, so praise the Lord.
Overview
God's care reaches the barren woman, whose childlessness brought deep sorrow in Israel; He grants her a household and joy, as with Sarah, Hannah, and others. The verse closes the psalm with another picture of God exalting the lowly, ending where it began, in praise. It points to the God who brings life and joy out of barrenness, supremely in the new birth He gives in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 68:6God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- Gen 21:5–7Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
- 1 Sam 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.
- Gen 30:22–23Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,
- Isa 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.
- Luke 1:13–15But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.
- Gen 25:21Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
- Gal 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.”
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