Ps. lxviii. 6: according to Augustin’s translation and adaptation of the words מֹושִׁיב יְחִירִים בַּיְתָה, and which the Vulgate has also rendered somewhat similarly, qui inhabitare facit unius moris in domo. The English version is rather more accordant with the context, “who setteth the solitary in families,” or rather, “who maketh the solitary [lit. those standing alone] to dwell in a house,” marg.; that is, if יָחִיר might not even here retain its proper meaning of “only one,” and, hence “beloved one.” At all events, the word thus used, and its place in the context (see especially the preceding verse), may warrant the combination of both meanings,—that those who are “ones standing alone,” friendless, cast off from others, in a human sense, are יְחִירִים, “only ones,” “beloved ones” in the heavenly Father’s sight, to whom He extends a special protection, and provideth a home.—Tr.