And if they are bound in chains, and are held in cords of affliction,
You put my feet also in the stocks, and look closely to all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
know now that God has overthrown me, and His net has closed on me.
He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears by oppression.
Beware, do not turn to iniquity; for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
Those who sit in the darkness and in the shadow of death, being chained in affliction and iron;
The sorrows of death hemmed me in, and the pains of hell took hold on me; I found trouble and sorrow.
The bands of the wicked have robbed me; but I have not forgotten Your Law.
to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with iron-bands,
The sorrows of hell surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
He walled up my ways with cut stone; my paths are crooked.