Psalm 107:10 {106:10}
Good News Translation
Some were living in gloom and darkness, prisoners suffering in chains,

New Revised Standard Version
Some sat in darkness and in gloom, prisoners in misery and in irons,

Contemporary English Version
Some of you were prisoners suffering in deepest darkness and bound by chains,

New American Bible
Some lived in darkness and gloom, imprisoned in misery and chains.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.

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Job 3:5 Let darkness, and the shadow of death, cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.

Isaiah 9:2 The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great light: to them that dwelt in the region of the shadow of death, light is risen.

Matthew 4:16 The people that sat in darkness, hath seen great light: and to them that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up.

Matthew 22:13 Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Luke 1:79 To enlighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into the way of peace.

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Psalm 105:18 They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,

Exodus 2:23,24 Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works. . . .

2 Chronicles 33:11 Therefore he brought upon them the captains of he army of the king of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him bound with chains and fetters to Babylon.

Job 36:8,9 And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty: . . .

Lamentations 3:6,7 Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever. . . .

Romans 6:20,21 For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice. . . .

Context
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good
9For he hath satisfied the empty soul, and hath filled the hungry soul with good things. 10Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.11Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High:…
Cross References
Luke 1:79
To enlighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into the way of peace.

Job 36:8
And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:

Psalm 5:10
Their throat is an open sepulchre: they dealt deceitfully with their tongues: judge them, O God. Let them fall from their devices: according to the multitude of their wickednesses cast them out: for they have provoked thee, O Lord.

Psalm 68:6
God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that provoke, that dwell in sepulchres.

Psalm 102:20
That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:

Psalm 107:14
And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in sunder.

Psalm 143:3
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old:

Isaiah 42:7
That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth the prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Jeremiah 13:16
Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness.

Micah 7:8
Rejoice not, thou my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall arise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light.

Psalm 107:9
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