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King James Version

Psalms 113:9

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord .

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Children;   Thompson Chain Reference - Home;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hymn;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Humility;   Joy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Justice;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Child, Children;   Dedication, Feast of the;   Hallel;   Hallelujah;   Medicine;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hosanna;   Psalms the book of;   Tabernacles feast of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Barren;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Barren;   Hallel;   Hallelujah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Amram, Father of Moses;   Auerbach, Menahem Mendel ben Meshullam Solomon;   Bat Ḳol;   Circumcision;   Giṭṭin;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
He gives the childless woman a family, making her a happy mother. Praise the Lord !
English Revised Version
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
Update Bible Version
He makes the barren woman to keep house, [And to be] a joyful mother of sons. Praise you Yah.
New Century Version
He gives children to the woman who has none and makes her a happy mother. Praise the Lord !
New English Translation
He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord !
Webster's Bible Translation
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [and to be] a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
World English Bible
He settles the barren woman in her home, As a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
Amplified Bible
He makes the barren woman live in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!)
English Standard Version
He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord !
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Which makith a bareyn womman dwelle in the hous; a glad modir of sones.
Berean Standard Bible
He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
Contemporary English Version
When a wife has no children, he blesses her with some, and she is happy. Shout praises to the Lord !
American Standard Version
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, And to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.
Complete Jewish Bible
He causes the childless woman to live at home happily as a mother of children. Halleluyah!
Darby Translation
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [as] a joyful mother of sons. Hallelujah!
Easy-to-Read Version
He gives children to the woman whose home is empty. He makes her a happy mother. Praise the Lord !
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who maketh the barren woman to dwell in her house as a joyful mother of children.
King James Version (1611)
He maketh the barren woman to keepe house; to be a ioyfull mother of children: Praise yee the Lord.
New Life Bible
He gives a home to the woman who could not give birth and makes her the mother of children. Praise the Lord!
New Revised Standard
He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord !
Geneva Bible (1587)
He maketh the barren woman to dwell with a familie, and a ioyfull mother of children. Prayse ye the Lord.
George Lamsa Translation
He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD.
Good News Translation
He honors the childless wife in her home; he makes her happy by giving her children. Praise the Lord !
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Causing the barren woman to dwell in household, A mother of sons in her joy! Praise ye Yah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(112-9) Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.
Revised Standard Version
He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the LORD!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He maketh the barren woman to kepe house: and to be a ioyful mother of children. Prayse ye the Lorde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
who settles the barren woman in a house, as a mother rejoicing over children.
Christian Standard Bible®
He gives the childless woman a household,making her the joyful mother of children.Hallelujah!
Hebrew Names Version
He settles the barren woman in her home, As a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!
Lexham English Bible
He causes the barren woman of the house to dwell as the happy mother of children. Praise Yah!
Literal Translation
He causes the barren to live in the house as the joyful mother of sons. Praise Jehovah!
Young's Literal Translation
Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Which maketh the baren woman to kepe house, and to be a ioyfull mother of children. Halleluya.
New American Standard Bible
He has the infertile woman live in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!
New King James Version
He grants the barren woman a home, Like a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He makes the barren woman abide in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord !
Legacy Standard Bible
He makes the barren woman of the house sitAs a glad mother of children.Praise Yah!

Contextual Overview

1 Praise ye the Lord . Praise, O ye servants of the Lord , praise the name of the Lord . 2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. 3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord 's name is to be praised. 4 The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. 5 Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high, 6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth! 7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; 8 That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people. 9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord .

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.


 
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