Psalm 68:6 (WEB)
God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
Catechism · 1
“Most especially he is "the Father of the poor", of the orphaned and the widowed, who are under his loving protection.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 2 Sam 7:14; Ps 68:6.
Fathers and councils · 11
Augustine of Hippo
“Thou, who makest men to dwell of one mind in a house, didst associate with us Evodius also, a young man of our city, who, when serving as an agent for Public Affairs, was converted unto Thee and baptized prior to us; and relinquishing his secular service, prepared himself for Thine.” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 6.
Read the whole comment“For what is His place he hath disclosed, when he saith, “God that maketh to dwell men of one mood in a house” (ver. 6): men of one mind, of one sentiment: this is the holy place of the Lord.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And by this bread, “God makes people of one sort to dwell in a house.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 6.
Read the whole comment“The saints are distinguished from the world by that love which maketh the one-minded to dwell [together] in a house.” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 6: according to Augustin’s translation and adaptation of the words מֹושִׁיב יְחִירִים בַּיְתָה, and which the Vulgate has also rendered somewhat…
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Cyprian of Carthage
“…and there was not a consent of the brethren one and simple, and a united concord; since it is written, “God who maketh men to be of one mind in a house;” and we read in the Acts of the Apostles, “And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 6. [Vulgate and Anglican Psalter version.]
Read the whole comment“…except they are of one heart and one mind, since the Holy Spirit speaks in the Psalms, and says, “It is God who maketh men to dwell of one mind in a house.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 6. [Vulgate and Anglican Psalter.]
Read the whole comment“They continued with one accord in prayer, declaring both by the urgency and by the agreement of their praying, that God, “who maketh men to dwell of one mind in a house,” only admits into the divine and eternal home those among whom prayer is unanimous.” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 6.
Read the whole comment“This home, this household of unanimity, the Holy Spirit designates and points out in the Psalms, saying, “God, who maketh men to dwell with one mind in a house.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 6.
Read the whole comment“God is in His holy place: God, who maketh men to dwell with one mind in an house, bringing forth them that are bound with might, and equally those who provoke unto anger, who dwell in the sepulchres: God, when Thou wentest forth in the sight of Thy people, in passing into the desert.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 1–7.
Read the whole comment“Also in the sixty-seventh Psalm: “God, who maketh men to dwell with one mind in a house.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 6. [So Vulgate and Anglican Psalter.]
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Basil the Great
“The just is an honest man, like Job. Wherefore God setteth the solitary in families.” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 6.
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Cross-references · 20
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.87.
Cited together in Confessions IX.8.
Cited together in Confessions IX.8.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.87.
Cited together in Confessions IX.8.
Cited together in Catechism §238.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.87.
Cited together in Confessions IX.8.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in Catechism §238.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.87.
Cited together in Catechism §238.
Cited together in Catechism §238.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 76.