Psalms Chapter 107 verse 10 Holy Bible
Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,
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Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
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Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,
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Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
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Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,
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Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 10-16. - There are others afflicted differently - struck down by some grievous calamity, imprisonment, earthly ruin, down fall of their hopes, a sense of their bondage to sin - who suffer perhaps even more than the dissatisfied wanderers. They too may cry to God in their trouble; and when they do, they experience his mercy. Let them join in the chorus of praise. Verse 10. - Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death (comp. Job 16:16; Job 36:8). The expressions used are purposely vague, being intended to cover various sorts of misery. Being bound in affliction and iron; i.e. "in an affliction which holds them like bands of iron" (comp. ver. 17).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10-16) The prisoners.(10) In darkness.--A common synonym for a dungeon. (See Isaiah 42:7; Isaiah 49:9, both of the exiles in Babylon; comp. Micah 7:8.)This description, applicable to prisons in all ages but the most modern, was especially suitable for those of the ancients, who admitted no light at all; e.g., the Mamertine prison at Rome. Comp. Virgil, 'n. vi. 734:"Neque aurasDispiciunt clausae tenebris et carcere caeco."In affliction and iron.--Both words are found also in Psalm 105:18, but distributed into the two clauses of the verse--hurt, iron. (Comp., too, Job 36:8, "bound in fetters and holden in cords of affliction.") The LXX. and Vulg. have "in poverty and in iron." . . .
