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 breaks out in my anger burning to the deepest part of the afterlife, consuming the earth and its produce and igniting the foundations of the mountains.
Psalm 65:6
The One who established the mountains by his strength is clothed with omnipotence.
Psalm 104:6
You covered the primeval ocean like a garment; the water stood above the mountains.
Isaiah 40:12
"Who has measured the waters of the sea in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens by the width of his hand? Who has enclosed the dust of the earth in a measuring bowl, or weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
Habakkuk 3:6
He stood up and shook the land; with his stare he startled the nations. The age-old mountains were shattered, and the ancient hilltops bowed down. His ways are eternal.
The earth
Job 38:4
"Where were you when I laid the foundation of my earth? Tell me, since you're so informed!
Proverbs 8:25
Before the mountains were shaped, before there were hills, I was bringing them to birth.
Yet
Psalm 16:10
For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, you will not allow your holy one to experience corruption.
Isaiah 38:17
Yes, it was for my own good that I suffered extreme anguish. But in love you have held back my life from the Pit in which it has been confined; you have tossed all my sins behind your back.
Acts 13:33
he has fulfilled for us, their descendants, by raising Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm, "You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.'
Corruption
Job 33:24
to show favor to him and to plead, "Deliver him from having to go down to the Pit I know where his ransom is!'
Psalm 30:3
LORD, you brought me from death; you kept me alive so that I did not descend into the Pit.
Psalm 55:23
But you, God, bring them down to the Pit of corruption; bloodthirsty and deceitful people will not live out half their days. But I put my full confidence in you. To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "A Silent Dove Far Away," when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
Psalm 143:7
Answer me quickly, LORD; my spirit is failing. Do not hide your face from me; otherwise, I will become like those who descend to the Pit,