His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. {sins: Heb. sin}

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, {being} bound in affliction and iron;

The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. {sorrows: or, cords}

He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. {from perishing: Heb. from passing}

He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. {lookest...: Heb. observest} {heels: Heb. roots}

Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. {gat...: Heb. found me}

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, {being} bound in affliction and iron;

How many {are} mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:

And they said one to another, We {are} verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; {sorrows: or, cords}

To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured {them}: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. {when...: or, the multitude of your gardens, etc. did the palmerworm}

Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. {of the king: Heb. which were the king's} {fetters: or, chains}