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Psalm 105:18

They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

16He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.
17He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
18They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
19until the time that his word happened, and the LORD’s word proved him true.
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Bruised feet and a neck locked in irons make Joseph’s suffering concrete, even within a psalm that recounts God’s work through his life.

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Where else Scripture says this

5 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Acts 16:24Having received such a command, he threw them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.Both accounts describe prisoners whose feet were secured in restraints, making the physical severity of their confinement plain.
Genesis 40:15For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”Both passages recount Joseph’s confinement, while Genesis records his protest that he had done nothing to deserve the dungeon.
Genesis 39:20Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.Genesis names the prison where Joseph was held, and the psalm describes the shackles and irons that hurt him there.
Psalm 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,Both psalms describe people bound in iron and name the suffering that accompanies their confinement.
Job 33:11He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’Both verses describe feet held in restraints, making bodily confinement a concrete expression of suffering.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. waiting.

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Read Psalm 105:17–20 and note each sign of suffering

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Encouragement

God sent Joseph ahead, and Joseph still suffered in chains. The psalm records both his place in God’s purpose and the wounds inflicted on his body.

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