He gives the childless woman a family, making her a happy mother. Praise the Lord!
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.
- BSB He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
- 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!
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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 sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- Gen 21:5–7Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.
- 1 Sam 2:5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.
- Gen 30:22–23God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
- Isa 54:1“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.
- Luke 1:13–15But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
- Gen 25:21Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
- Gal 4:27For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you that don’t travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband.”
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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