²¹ The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.

⁴¹ two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left.

² Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

⁵ and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the maid-servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of cattle.

¹⁴ The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; Likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

²² The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

¹⁹ None who go to her return again, Neither do they attain to the paths of life:

⁸ To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron;

¹⁰ Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,

¹¹ Because they rebelled against the words of God, And condemned the counsel of the Most High.

¹² Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was none to help.

¹¹ Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

⁷ They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.