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 the thing which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has come unto me.
Job 29:18
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Psalm 30:6
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

In love to my soul delivered it from the pit

Psalm 30:3
O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Psalm 40:2
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.
Psalm 86:13
For great is your mercy toward me: and you have delivered my soul from the depths of sheol.
Psalm 88:4
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength:
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with her bars closed about me forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

Thou hast cast

Isaiah 43:25
I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember your sins.
Psalm 10:2
The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalm 85:2
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have covered all their sin. Selah.
Jeremiah 31:34
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like unto you, who pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retains not his anger forever, because he delights in mercy.

General references

Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.