Psalm 107:10 Some sat in darkness, in utter darkness, prisoners suffering in iron chains,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Some sat in darkness, in utter darkness, prisoners suffering in iron chains,

English Standard Version
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons,

New American Standard Bible
There were those who dwelt in darkness and in the shadow of death, Prisoners in misery and chains,

King James Bible
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Others sat in darkness and gloom-- prisoners in cruel chains--

International Standard Version
Some sat in deepest darkness, shackled with cruel iron,

American Standard Version
Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.

Darby Bible Translation
Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,

Young's Literal Translation
Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron,

Cross References

Luke 1:79
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Job 36:8
And if they be bound in fetters, and be held in cords of affliction;

Psalm 5:10
Destroy you them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you.

Psalm 68:6
God sets the solitary in families: he brings out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Psalm 102:20
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

Psalm 107:14
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.

Psalm 143:3
For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Isaiah 42:7
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

Micah 7:8
Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light to me.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

107:10-16 This description of prisoners and captives intimates that they are desolate and sorrowful. In the eastern prisons the captives were and are treated with much severity. Afflicting providences must be improved as humbling providences; and we lose the benefit, if our hearts are unhumbled and unbroken under them. This is a shadow of the sinner's deliverance from a far worse confinement. The awakened sinner discovers his guilt and misery. Having struggled in vain for deliverance, he finds there is no help for him but in the mercy and grace of God. His sin is forgiven by a merciful God, and his pardon is accompanied by deliverance from the power of sin and Satan, and by the sanctifying and comforting influences of God the Holy Spirit.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10-16. Their sufferings were for their rebellion against (Ps 105:28) the words, or purposes, or promises, of God for their benefit. When humbled they cry to God, who delivers them from bondage, described as a dark dungeon with doors and bars of metal, in which they are bound in iron—that is, chains and fetters.

shadow of death—darkness with danger (Ps 23:4).