All your leaders ran away together – they fled to a distant place; all your refugees were captured together – they were captured without a single arrow being shot.

He loosens the bonds of kings and binds a loincloth around their waist.

But if they are bound in chains, and held captive by the cords of affliction,

giving him authority to imprison his officials and to teach his advisers.

They bind their kings in chains, and their nobles in iron shackles,

Joseph’s master took him and threw him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. So he was there in the prison.

He said to her, “If they tie me tightly with brand new ropes that have never been used, I will become weak and be just like any other man.”

Then he prepared his chariots and took his army with him.

The godless at heart nourish anger, they do not cry out even when he binds them.

When I please, I will discipline them; I will gather nations together to attack them, to bind them in chains for their two sins.

They said to him, “We promise! We will only take you prisoner and hand you over to them. We promise not to kill you.” They tied him up with two brand new ropes and led him up from the cliff.

“If a young woman who is still living in her father’s house makes a vow to the Lord or places herself under an obligation,

“But every vow of a widow or of a divorced woman which she has pledged for herself will remain intact.

If she made the vow in her husband’s house or put herself under obligation with an oath,

So the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried and they tied him up with them.

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked him, bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.

The builders to a man had their swords strapped to their sides while they were building. But the trumpeter remained with me.

The Lord is God and he has delivered us. Tie the offering with ropes to the horns of the altar!

vindicates the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry. The Lord releases the imprisoned.

Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. The locks of your hair are like royal tapestries – the king is held captive in its tresses!