Psalms 68:6

God maketh the solitary to dwell in a house;

He bringeth out prisoners into prosperity;

But the stubborn dwell In a parched land.

The verse describes general principles of God's dealings with men, yet with special allusion to the establishment of Israel in Canaan, to their liberation from the bondage of Egypt, and to the fate of the rebels in the wilderness: and again, if the Ps. is rightly placed in the Exile, to the second Exodus from Babylon, and the reestablishment of the Israelites in their ancient home, while the faithless and rebellious part of the people will be left in the dreary and inhospitable heathen land, unwatered by the streams of divine grace (Psalms 63:1). Rebelliousor stubbornhas been understood by some to refer to the heathen, but the usage of the word (which is applied to the - stubbornand rebellious son" in Deuteronomy 21:18; Deuteronomy 21:20) suggests rather that refractory Israelites are meant, as in Psalms 78:8. Stubborn rebellion against Jehovah's will was characteristic of the whole course of Israel's history; and it is hinted not obscurely that as of old the rebels perished in the wilderness instead of entering Canaan, so now the murmurers in Babylon, of whom it is plain from Isaiah 40-66 (e.g. Psalms 65:2) that there were many, will be left there to their fate. The solitaryor desolate(Psalms 25:16) are the homeless and friendless. Cp. Isaiah 58:7; and (though the word is different) Lamentations 1:1.