Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Horrible pit
The miry
Established
General references
Bible References
Horrible pit
Matthew 13:50
and will throw them into a blazing furnace. In that place there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
The miry
Psalm 69:2
I am sinking in deep mire, and there is no solid ground. I have come into deep water, and the flood overwhelms me.
Jeremiah 38:6
So they threw Jeremiah into a cistern that belonged to the king's son Malchijah and was located in the courtyard of the guard. When they let Jeremiah down with ropes, because there was no water in the cistern only mud Jeremiah sank into the mud.
Lamentations 3:53
They dumped me alive into a pit, sealing me in with stone.
Set
Psalm 27:5
For he will conceal me in his shelter on the day of evil; He will hide me in a secluded chamber within his tent; He will place me on a high rock.
Psalm 61:2
From the end of the earth I will cry to you whenever my heart is overwhelmed. Place me on the rock that's too high for me.
Matthew 7:24
"Therefore, everyone who listens to these messages of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on a rock.
Established
Psalm 17:5
Because my steps have held fast to your paths, my footsteps have not faltered.
Psalm 18:36
You make a broad place for my steps, so my feet won't slip.
Psalm 37:23
A man's steps are established by the LORD, and the LORD delights in his way.
Psalm 119:133
Direct my footsteps by your promise, and do not let any kind of iniquity rule over me.
General references
Lamentations 3:55
I called on your name, LORD, from the depths of the Pit,
Jonah 2:5
Flood waters encompassed me, the deep surrounded me while seaweed wrapped around my head.
Matthew 5:4
"How blessed are those who mourn, because it is they who will be comforted!