The stocks — literally 'the TWISTER,' a frame that bent the prisoner's body (Jeremiah 20:2; paired with the collar at 29:26). Built on haphakh, the overturning-verb of Sodom — so Jeremiah's chapter is bracketed by one root: twisted in the mahpekhet at its start, wishing 'the cities Jehovah overthrew' on the world at its end (20:16). → first discussed at Jer 20:2