105:18 The shackles hurt his feet; 1
his neck was placed in an iron collar, 2
107:16 For he shattered the bronze gates,
and hacked through the iron bars. 3
149:8 They bind 4 their kings in chains,
and their nobles in iron shackles,
1 tn Heb “they afflicted his feet with shackles.”
2 tn Heb “his neck came [into] iron.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) with the suffix could mean simply “he” or “his life.” But the nuance “neck” makes good sense here (note the reference to his “feet” in the preceding line). See L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 38.
3 sn The language of v. 16 recalls Isa 45:2.
4 tn Heb “to bind.”