Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

Bible References

Down

Deuteronomy 26:15
Look down from your holy habitation in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land that you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors a land flowing with milk and honey.'"
Psalm 33:14
From his dwelling place, he looks down on all the inhabitants of the earth.
Psalm 80:14
God of the Heavenly Armies, return! Look down from heaven and see. Show care toward this vine.
Psalm 102:19
For when he looked down from his holy heights the LORD looked over the earth from heaven
Lamentations 3:50
until the LORD bends down to see from heaven.

The habitation

Isaiah 57:15
"For this is what the high and lofty One says, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "He lives in the height and in holiness, and also with the one who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 66:1
This is what the LORD says: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house that you would build for me, and where will my resting place be?
1 Kings 8:27
and yet, will God truly reside on earth? Look! Neither the sky nor the highest heaven can contain you! How much less this Temple that I have built!
2 Chronicles 30:27
After this, the priests arose, blessed the people, and their voices were heard in prayer all the way to heaven, where God resides in holiness.
Psalm 113:5
Who is like the LORD our God, enthroned on high,
Psalm 123:1
To you, who sit enthroned in heaven, I lift up my eyes.

Where

Isaiah 51:9
"Awake! Awake! Clothe yourself with strength, you arm of the LORD! Awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of long ago. Was it not you who split apart Rehob, who pierced that sea monster through?
Psalm 89:49
Where is your gracious love of old, Lord, that in your faithfulness you promised to David?

Thy bowels

Isaiah 63:9
In all their distress he wasn't distressed, but the angel of his presence saved them; in his acts of love and in his acts of pity he redeemed them; he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.
Isaiah 49:15
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, or have no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these mothers may forget; But as for me, I'll never forget you!
Psalm 25:6
Remember, LORD, your tender mercies and your gracious love; indeed, they are eternal!
Hosea 11:8
"How can I give up on you, Ephraim? I will deliver you, will I not, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? I can't make you like Zeboim, can I? My heart stirs within me; my compassion also fans into flame!
Luke 1:78
Because of the tender mercy of our God, his light from on high has visited us,
1 John 3:17
Whoever has earthly possessions and notices a brother in need and yet withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God be present in him?

Are

Psalm 77:7
Will the Lord reject me forever and not show favor again?

General references

Lamentations 3:50
until the LORD bends down to see from heaven.
Micah 7:15
As I did when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show you awesome things.
Hebrews 11:29
By faith they went through the Red Sea as if it were dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do this, they were drowned.

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