Tell of His Wonders

Psalms 105:18

In 11 translations

BSB: They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
KJV: Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:he…: Heb. his soul came into iron
WEB: They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
ASV: His feet they hurt with fetters: He was laid in chains of iron,
LSV: They have afflicted his feet with chains, || Iron has entered his soul,
YLT: They have afflicted with fetters his feet, Iron hath entered his soul,
DBY: They afflicted his feet with fetters; his soul came into irons;
DRC104:18: They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,
GNV: They helde his feete in the stockes, and he was laide in yrons,
JPS: His feet they hurt with fetters, his person was laid in iron;
LXXE104:18: They hurt his feet with fetters; his soul passed into iron,Gr. humbled.Or, his body, see Heb.

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Written (Ketiv): רַגְלָיו (“feet his”). Read aloud (Qere): רַגְל֑וֹ (“foot his”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.

Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)

Leningrad Codex reads רַגְלֹ֑יו; read aloud (Qere) reads רַגְל֑וֹ (“foot his”).

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Original-language editions

WLC: עִנּ֣וּ בַכֶּ֣בֶל רגליו בַּ֝רְזֶ֗ל בָּ֣אָה נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃Read aloud as (qere): רַגְל֑וֹ
LXX-Br104:18: Ἐταπείνωσαν ἐν πέδαις τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ, σίδηρον διῆλθεν ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ·

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

Iron Fetters Fetter Plague Iron (1)Plagues of Egypt Prisons Afflicted Saints Feet, The Punishments

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

Genesis 39:20So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
Acts 16:24On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Genesis 40:15For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”
Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles

104:18 in some Bibles
105:18 in most Bibles