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.

Bible References

Mountains

Deuteronomy 32:22
For, a fire, is kindled in mine anger, And shall burn as far as hades beneath, - And consume the earth with her produce, And set ablaze the foundations of the mountains:
Psalm 65:6
Who setteth fast the mountains by his strength, Being girded with might;
Psalm 104:6
With the resounding deep - as a garment, hast thou covered it, Above the mountains, stand the waters;
Isaiah 40:12
Who hath measured, with the hollow of his hand, the waters. Or the heavens with a span, hath meted out, Or hath comprehended, in a measure, the dust of the earth, Or weighed, in scales, the mountains, Or the hills, in a balance?
Habakkuk 3:6
He hath stood and measured the earth, he hath looked, and caused nations to tremble, and, scattered as dust, are the perpetual mountains, and, sunk, are the age-abiding hills, - Forthgoings age-abiding, are his.

The earth

Job 38:4
Where wast thou, when I founded the earth? Tell, if thou knowest understanding!
Proverbs 8:25
Ere yet the mountains had been settled, before the hills, had I been brought forth;

Yet

Psalm 16:10
For thou wilt not abandon my soul to hades, neither wilt thou suffer thy man of lovingkindness, to see corruption:
Isaiah 38:17
Lo! for well-being, I had bitterness - bitterness, - But, thou, cleaving unto my soul, hast raised me from the pit of corruption, For thou hast cast, behind thy back all my sins.
Acts 13:33
That God hath fulfilled, the same, for our children, by raising up Jesus: as also, in the second psalm, it is written - My son, art, thou: I, this day, have begotten thee.

Corruption

Job 33:24
Then hath he shewed him favour, and said, Set him free from going down to the pit, I have found a price of redemption!
Psalm 30:3
O Yahweh! thou hast lifted, out of hades, my soul, Thou hast brought me back to life, from among those who were going down to the pit.
Psalm 55:23
But, thou, O God, wilt bring them down to the pit of destruction, Men of bloodshed and deceit, shall not live out half their days; But, I, will trust in thee.