Psalms Chapter 105 verse 18 Holy Bible
His feet they hurt with fetters: He was laid in `chains of' iron,
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His feet were fixed in chains; his neck was put in iron bands;
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They afflicted his feet with fetters; his soul came into irons;
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Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
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They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
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They have afflicted with fetters his feet, Iron hath entered his soul,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron; rather, his soul entered into iron. In Genesis nothing more is said than that Joseph "was bound" in the prison (Genesis 40:3). But the psalmist knows what imprisonment was in those early times.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) He was laid in iron.--The Prayer Book Version, "the iron entered into his soul," has established itself so firmly among expressive proverbial sayings, that the mind almost resents the Authorised Version. The grammar of the clause does not decide its sense with certainty; for its syntax is rather in favour of the Prayer Book Version, though the feminine form of the verb makes in favour of the marginal rendering. Symmachus has, "his soul came into iron;" the LXX., "his soul passed through iron." The Vulg., however, has the other Version, "the iron passed through his soul"--first found in the Targum. The parallelism is in favour of the Authorised Version.