They bind ¹  their kings in chains, and their nobles in iron shackles,

Bind them on your forearm; ¹  write them on the tablet of your heart. ² 

He heals ¹  the brokenhearted, and bandages their wounds.

Bind them ¹  on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.

He loosens ¹  the bonds ²  of kings and binds a loincloth ³  around their waist.

You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm ¹  and fasten them as symbols ²  on your forehead.

Can you tie the bands ¹  of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?

Tie up the scroll as legal evidence, ¹  seal the official record of God’s instructions and give it to my followers. ² 

With great power God ¹  grasps my clothing; ²  he binds me like the collar ³  of my tunic.

Surely ¹  I would wear it proudly ²  on my shoulder, I would bind ³  it on me like a crown;

The godless at heart ¹  nourish anger, ²  they do not cry out even when he binds them.

Can you bind the wild ox ¹  to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?

But take a few strands of hair ¹  from those and tie them in the ends of your garment. ² 

He lived among the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.

I ¹  persecuted this Way ²  even to the point of death, ³  tying up ⁴  both men and women and putting ⁵  them in prison,

There we were, ¹  binding sheaves of grain in the middle of the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose up and stood upright and your sheaves surrounded my sheaf and bowed down ²  to it!”

“If a young ¹  woman who is still living ²  in her father’s house makes a vow to the Lord or places herself under an obligation,

Do not let truth and mercy ¹  leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. ² 

For ¹  he ²  wounds, ³  but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.

Hide them in the dust ¹  together, imprison ²  them ³  in the grave. ⁴