Psalms 105:18
They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
BSB
ASV
His feet they hurt with fetters: He was laid in chains of iron,
KJV
Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
Not nature but foolishness makes the slave. Not manumission but learning makes a person free. Esau was born free, but he became a slave; Joseph was sold into slavery, but he was raised to power8 so that he might rule those who had purchased him. Yet he did not slight his obligation to work zealously; he clung to the heights of virtue; he preserved the liberty of innocence, the stronghold of blamelessness. So the psalmist beautifully says, "Joseph had been sold into slavery. They had bound his feet with fetters."
Whose feet they hurt with fetters. From this we learn a little more of Joseph's sufferings than we find in the book of Genesis: inspiration had not ceased, and David was as accurate an historian as Moses, for the same Spirit guided his pen. He was laid in iron, or "into iron came his soul." The prayer book version, "the iron entered into his soul, "is ungrammatical, but probably expresses much the same truth. His fetters hurt his mind as well as his body, and well did Jacob say, "The archers shot at him, and sorely grieved him."
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Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
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to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.
the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”
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Acts 16:24On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
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Genesis 39:20So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
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For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”