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Psalms 113:9
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He gives the childless woman a family, making her a happy mother. Praise the Lord !
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
He makes the barren woman to keep house, [And to be] a joyful mother of sons. Praise you Yah.
He gives children to the woman who has none and makes her a happy mother. Praise the Lord !
He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord !
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [and to be] a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
He settles the barren woman in her home, As a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
He makes the barren woman live in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!)
He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord !
Which makith a bareyn womman dwelle in the hous; a glad modir of sones.
He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
When a wife has no children, he blesses her with some, and she is happy. Shout praises to the Lord !
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, And to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye Jehovah.
He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.
He causes the childless woman to live at home happily as a mother of children. Halleluyah!
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [as] a joyful mother of sons. Hallelujah!
He gives children to the woman whose home is empty. He makes her a happy mother. Praise the Lord !
Who maketh the barren woman to dwell in her house as a joyful mother of children.
He maketh the barren woman to keepe house; to be a ioyfull mother of children: Praise yee the Lord.
He gives a home to the woman who could not give birth and makes her the mother of children. Praise the Lord!
He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord !
He maketh the barren woman to dwell with a familie, and a ioyfull mother of children. Prayse ye the Lord.
He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD.
He honors the childless wife in her home; he makes her happy by giving her children. Praise the Lord !
Causing the barren woman to dwell in household, A mother of sons in her joy! Praise ye Yah.
(112-9) Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.
He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the LORD!
He maketh the barren woman to kepe house: and to be a ioyful mother of children. Prayse ye the Lorde.
who settles the barren woman in a house, as a mother rejoicing over children.
He gives the childless woman a household,making her the joyful mother of children.Hallelujah!
He settles the barren woman in her home, As a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!
He causes the barren woman of the house to dwell as the happy mother of children. Praise Yah!
He causes the barren to live in the house as the joyful mother of sons. Praise Jehovah!
Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!
Which maketh the baren woman to kepe house, and to be a ioyfull mother of children. Halleluya.
He has the infertile woman live in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!
He grants the barren woman a home, Like a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!
He makes the barren woman abide in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord !
He makes the barren woman of the house sitAs a glad mother of children.Praise Yah!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
maketh: Psalms 68:6, Genesis 21:5-7, Genesis 25:21, Genesis 30:22, Genesis 30:23, 1 Samuel 2:5, Isaiah 54:1, Luke 1:13-15, Galatians 4:27
keep house: Heb. dwell in an house
Reciprocal: Genesis 11:30 - barren Genesis 21:6 - God Numbers 5:28 - and shall Ruth 4:13 - the Lord 2 Kings 4:17 - General Ecclesiastes 3:2 - time to be born Luke 1:58 - her neighbours John 16:21 - for
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He maketh the barren woman to keep house,.... Or "to dwell in the house", as the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and other versions; or rather "to cause the house to be inhabited"; to fill the house with inhabitants, to build up the house, as the barren woman, when made fruitful, does, as Rachel and Leah built up the house of Israel, Ruth 4:11. This may be applied to the church of God, as it is to the congregation of Israel by the Targum,
"who makes the congregation of Israel, which is like to a barren woman, that sitteth sorrowful, to dwell with the men of her house, full of multitudes.''
Jarchi interprets it of Zion, who was as a barren woman; see Isaiah 54:1 Galatians 4:27. It may be illustrated by the case of the primitive and apostolic church, which at first had but very few converts, but afterwards, both in Judea and in the Gentile world, had large numbers; as the church in the latter day will also have, when the fulness of the Gentiles is brought in, and the nation of the Jews born at once.
And to be a joyful mother of children; as the barren woman is when she becomes the mother of children; and indeed every woman rejoices when a man is born into the world, John 16:21, and so does the church of Christ and people of God, when souls are born again among them; this causes great joy among the saints; see Psalms 87:4.
Praise ye the Lord; not only for the church's fruitfulness, but for all the great and good things the Lord has vouchsafed to do for his people, mentioned in this psalm.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He maketh the barren woman to keep house ... - Margin, as in Hebrew, “to dwell in a house.” That is, to be at the head of a family. See the notes at Psalms 68:6. Compare 1 Samuel 2:5. This, too, is suggested as a reason why God should be praised and adored. In instances where all hope of posterity is cut off, he interposes, and diffuses joy through a dwelling. We may look abroad, and see abundant occasion for praising God, in his condescension to human affairs - in his lifting up the poor from the humblest condition - in his exalting those of lowly rank to places of honor, trust, wealth, and power; but, after all, if we wish to Find occasions of praise that will most tenderly affect the heart, and be connected with the warmest affections of the soul, they will be most likely to be found in the domestic circle - in the mutual love - the common joy - the tender feelings - which bind together the members of a family. In such a family, the words with which this psalm begins and ends, “Hallelujah,” “Hallelujah,” are especially appropriate; and if any community on earth should apply these words to itself it should be such a family, called upon by everything tender, holy, and lovely, to “praise the” Lord.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 113:9. He maketh the barren woman to keep house — This is a figure to point out the desolate, decreasing state of the captives in Babylon, and the happy change which took place on their return to their own land. These are nearly the words of Hannah, 1 Samuel 2:5.
ANALYSIS OF THE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH PSALM
The scope of this Psalm is the same with those that went before, that is, to excite men to praise God.
This Psalm contains three parts: -
I. An exhortation to God's servants to praise him.
II. A form set down how and where to praise him, Psalms 113:2-3.
III. The reasons to persuade us to it. 1. By his infinite power, Psalms 113:4-5. 2. His providence, as displayed in heaven and earth, Psalms 113:6.
I. The prophet exhorts men "to praise the Lord;" and,
1. He doubles and trebles his exhortation, that it be not coldly but zealously done, or else to show that he alone is worthy of praise.
2. "Praise the Lord, O ye servants," c.: They are to praise him, for he is their Lord praise him likewise with a pure heart.
II. The manner of praising him. Say,
1. "Blessed be the name of the Lord." Job 1:21.
2. "From this time forth," c.: In prosperity or adversity, in this life or the future.
3. "From the rising of the sun," &c.: In all places, even over all the world.
III: And now follow the reasons to persuade men to praise God.
1. Because of his majesty, infinite power, and glory, which extend not to earth alone, but heaven also: "The Lord is high above," &c.
2. Because of his providence, benignity, and bounty, which being united with so much majesty, appear the more admirable. "Who is like the Lord," &c. None in heaven or on earth are to be compared to him. "Yet he humbleth himself," &c. He is present with the highest angels, and with the poorest of his creatures, to help them.
In "humbling himself to behold the things on earth" he gives two instances: 1. In states and kingdoms. 2. In private families.
1. In states: "He raiseth up the poor," &c.: Let then no man say, that God does not regard them that are of low estate he raiseth up the poor, to the end "that he may set him with the princes," &c.
2. In private families: "He maketh the barren woman," &c. "Children are a heritage of the Lord." Some expositors refer the meaning of this last verse to the Church of the Gentiles: "Rejoice, O barren," &c. Isaiah 54:1.
