John Gill Commentary Psalms 105:18

"His feet they hurt with fetters: He was laid in [chains of] iron," — Psalms 105:18 (ASV)

Whose feet they hurt with fetters
For it seems Joseph was not only cast into prison, upon the calumny of his mistress; but had fetters put upon him, and his feet were made fast with them; and these were so close and heavy, as to pinch and gall and hurt him; which, though not mentioned in his history, was undoubtedly true; see (Genesis 39:20) .

He was laid in iron :
or "the iron" (or, as the Targum, "the iron chain") "went into his Soul" ^F6 ; his body; it ate into him, and gave him great pain: or rather, as it is in the king's Bible, "his soul went into the iron chain"; there being, as Aben Ezra observes, an ellipsis of the particle (b) , and which is supplied by Symmachus, and so in the Targum; that is, his body was enclosed in iron bands, so Buxtorf ^F7 . In all this he was a type of Christ, whose soul was made exceeding sorrowful unto death: he was seized by the Jews, led bound to the high priest, fastened to the cursed tree, pierced with nails, and more so with the sins of his people he bore; and was laid in the prison of the grave; from whence and from judgment he was brought, (Isaiah 53:8) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F6: So Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus.
• F7: Lexic. "in voce" (lzrb) .