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 hath been kindled in Mine anger, And it burneth unto Sheol -- the lowest, And consumeth earth and its increase, And setteth on fire foundations of mountains.
Psalm 65:6
Establishing mountains by His power, He hath been girded with might,
Psalm 104:6
The abyss! as with clothing Thou hast covered it, Above hills do waters stand.
Isaiah 40:12
Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters? And the heavens by a span hath meted out, And comprehended in a measure the dust of the earth, And hath weighed in scales the mountains, And the hills in a balance?
Habakkuk 3:6
He hath stood, and He measureth earth, He hath seen, and He shaketh off nations, And scatter themselves do mountains of antiquity, Bowed have the hills of old, The ways of old are His.
The earth
Job 38:4
Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.
Proverbs 8:25
Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.
Yet
Psalm 16:10
For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.
Isaiah 38:17
Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.
Acts 13:33
God hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee.
Corruption
Job 33:24
Then He doth favour him and saith, 'Ransom him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.'
Psalm 30:3
Jehovah, Thou hast brought up from Sheol my soul, Thou hast kept me alive, From going down to the pit.
Psalm 55:23
And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!
Psalm 143:7
Haste, answer me, O Jehovah, My spirit hath been consumed, Hide not Thou Thy face from me, Or I have been compared with those going down to the pit.