God sets the solitary in families; He brings out those who are bound into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a dry 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.
- BSB God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched 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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Quick answer
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 of children. Praise Yah!
- Ps 69:33For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
- Ps 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
- Isa 61:1The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
- Ps 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.
- Ps 146:7who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
- Ps 107:40–41He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
- 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.”
- 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.
- Acts 12:6–25The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
- Acts 16:26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.
- Ps 107:34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
- Deut 28:23–24Your sky that is over your head will be brass, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
- Hos 2:3Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
- Mal 1:3but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
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