Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

Horrible pit

Bible References

Horrible pit

Matthew 13:50
The wicked will be cast into the furnace of fire where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The miry

Psalm 69:2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Jeremiah 38:6
So they took me and let me down by ropes into Prince Malchiah's well, which was in the palace courtyard. There was no water in the well, only mud, and I sank down in it.
Lamentations 3:53
They sentence my life to prison and keep hurling stones at me.

Set

Psalm 27:5
He hides me in his shelter when there is trouble. He keeps me hidden in his tent. He puts me high on a rock.
Psalm 61:2
In despair and far from home I call to you! Take me to the rock that is my safe refuge,
Matthew 7:24
Everyone who hears my words, and does them is like a wise man that builds his house on a rock.

Established

Psalm 17:5
My steps have remained firmly in your paths. My feet have not slipped.
Psalm 18:36
You make a wide path for me to walk on so that my feet do not slip.
Psalm 37:23
Jehovah directs a person's steps and Jehovah delights in his way.
Psalm 119:133
Establish my footsteps in your word, and do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.

General references

Lamentations 3:55
I called out your name in prayer, O Jehovah, out of the lowest prison.
Jonah 2:5
The waters encompassed me and threatened my life. The deep sea surrounded me. The sea weeds were wrapped about my head.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.