God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
Parallel translations
- WEB God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- KJV God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
- NKJV God sets the solitary in families; He brings out those who are bound into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
- NASB God makes a home for the lonely; He leads out the prisoners into prosperity, Only the rebellious live in parched lands.
- 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.
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God settles the lonely in families and frees prisoners, while the rebellious dwell in barrenness. It shows God's care for the outcast and His justice toward rebels.
Overview
God places the solitary into families and leads prisoners out into freedom, but the stubbornly rebellious are left in a parched land. His grace gathers the lonely while His justice marks the defiant. This gathering into God's family is fulfilled as Christ brings the estranged into the household of God.
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- Ps 113:9He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
- Ps 69:33For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
- Ps 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
- Isa 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,
- Ps 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.
- Ps 146:7He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
- Ps 107:40–41He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- 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.”
- 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.
- Acts 12:6–25On 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.
- Acts 16:26Suddenly a strong earthquake shook the foundations of the prison. At once all the doors flew open and everyone’s chains came loose.
- Ps 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
- Deut 28:23–24The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
- Hos 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.
- Mal 1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
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