Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

For peace i had great bitterness

In love to my soul delivered it from the pit

General references

Bible References

For peace i had great bitterness

Job 3:25
For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.
Job 29:18
Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;

In love to my soul delivered it from the pit

Psalm 40:2
He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.
Psalm 88:4
I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.

Thou hast cast

Isaiah 43:25
I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.
Psalm 10:2
The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.
Psalm 85:2
The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)
Jeremiah 31:34
And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

General references

Matthew 5:4
Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain