“Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 107 contains 43 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.