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 mine anger, And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol, And shall consume the earth and its produce, And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.
Psalm 65:6
Who by his strength established the mountains, being girded with power;
Psalm 104:6
Thou hadst covered it with the deep, as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains:
Isaiah 40:12
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with his span, and grasped the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales?
Habakkuk 3:6
He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and discomfited the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered, The everlasting hills gave way: His ways are everlasting.
The earth
Job 38:4
Where wast thou when I founded the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
Proverbs 8:25
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;
Yet
Psalm 16:10
For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol, neither wilt thou allow thy Holy One to see corruption.
Isaiah 38:17
Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Acts 13:33
that God has fulfilled this to us their children, having raised up Jesus; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee.
Corruption
Job 33:24
Then he will be gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Psalm 30:3
Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, thou hast quickened me from among those that go down to the pit.
Psalm 55:23
And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee.
Psalm 143:7
Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, or I shall be like unto them that go down into the pit.