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

Bible References

Horrible pit

Matthew 13:50
And they shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall there be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The miry

Psalm 69:2
I sank in mire of depth, and no standing: I came into depths of waters and the floods overwhelmed me.
Jeremiah 38:6
And they will take Jeremiah and send him to the pit of Malchiah son of the king which was in the enclosure of the prison: and they will cast Jeremiah with cords, and in the pit no water but mud: and Jeremiah will sink in the mud.
Lamentations 3:53
They cut off my life in the pit, and cast a stone upon me.

Set

Psalm 27:5
For he will hide me in the booth in the day of evil: he will cover me with the covering of his tent; he will lift me up upon a rock.
Psalm 61:2
From the end of the earth I will call to thee, in the fainting of my heart: thou wilt lead me into the rock it will be lifted up above me.
Matthew 7:24
Therefore, every one which hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a discerning man which built his house upon the rock.

Established

Psalm 17:5
Hold up my being straight in thy ways, my steps be not moved
Psalm 18:36
Thou wilt make broad my steps under me and my joints did not waver.
Psalm 37:23
From Jehovah the steps of a man were prepared, and he will delight in his way.
Psalm 119:133
Prepare my steps in thy word, and all iniquity shall not rule over me.

General references

Lamentations 3:55
I called thy name, O Jehovah, in the pit underneath.
Jonah 2:5
The waters encompassed me even to the soul: the deep will surround me, the sedge was bound to my head.
Matthew 5:4
Happy they suffering: for they shall be comforted.