And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,
And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.
He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.
Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.
Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
The cords of evil-doers are round me; but I have kept in mind your law.
To put their kings in chains, and their rulers in bands of iron;
The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.