Psalms 113:9
7 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
8 to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.
He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
- KJV
- He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
- WEB
- He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!
- ASV
- He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [And to be] a joyful mother of children. Praise ye Jehovah. Psalm 114
- DARBY
- He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [as] a joyful mother of sons. Hallelujah!
- BLB
- settling in a home the barren woman, joyful like a mother of sons. Praise YAH!
- ÅB
- han som lar den ufruktbare hustru bo som glad barnemor! Halleluja!
- OTB
- Han gir den barnløse kvinnen et hjem
Som en glad mor til barn.
Pris Herren! - B1930
- han som lar den ufruktbare hustru bo som glad barnemor! Halleluja!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 68:6
God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
Read in contextGenesis 21:5–7
Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
Read in contextGenesis 30:22–23
Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,
Read in context1 Samuel 2:5
The 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.
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in contextLuke 1:13–15
But 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.
Read in contextGenesis 25:21
Later, 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.
Read in contextGalatians 4:27
For 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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