If they are bound in chains and held in cords of affliction,
You put my feet in the stocks and watch closely all my paths; You draw a line around the soles of my feet.
know now that God has bent me and has surrounded me with His net.
He delivers the poor in their affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.
Take heed! Do not turn to iniquity, for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
There were those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and irons,
The cords of death encompassed me, and the pangs of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow.
The bands of the wicked have bound me, but I have not forgotten Your law.
to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the cords of his sin.
He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.