Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
The earth
Corruption
Bible References
Mountains
Deuteronomy 32:22
For a fire is kindled in my anger, and burns to the lowest Sheol, and devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Psalm 65:6
who by his strength sets firm the mountains, being girded about with might,
Psalm 104:6
Thou covered it with the deep as with a vesture. The waters stood above the mountains.
Isaiah 40:12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Habakkuk 3:6
He stood, and measured the earth. He beheld, and drove apart the nations. And the eternal mountains were scattered. The everlasting hills bowed. His goings were [as] of old.
The earth
Job 38:4
Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou have understanding.
Proverbs 8:25
before the mountains were settled, before the hills. I was brought forth
Yet
Psalm 16:10
For thou will not leave my soul to Sheol, nor will thou allow thy holy man to see corruption.
Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back.
Acts 13:33
as also it is written in the second psalm, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee.
Corruption
Job 33:24
then [God] is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom.
Psalm 30:3
O LORD, thou have brought up my soul from Sheol. Thou have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Psalm 55:23
But thou, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.
Psalm 143:7
Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.