They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
Parallel translations
- KJV Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
- BSB They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
- NKJV They hurt his feet with fetters, He was laid in irons.
- NASB They forced his feet into shackles, He was put in irons;
- NLT They bruised his feet with fetters and placed his neck in an iron collar.
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Cross-references · 4
- Acts 16:24who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
- Gen 40:15For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”
- Gen 39:20Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
- Ps 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
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