“Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,
But those who were hungry cease to hunger.
(A)Even the barren gives birth to seven,
But (B)she who has many children languishes.

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God [a](A)makes a home for the lonely;
He (B)leads out the prisoners into prosperity,
Only (C)the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 68:6 Lit makes the solitary to dwell in a house

The Fertility of Zion

54 (A)Shout for joy, O barren one, you who have borne no child;
Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not travailed;
For the sons of the (B)desolate one will be (C)more numerous
Than the sons of the married woman,” says the Lord.

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