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 throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!

The miry

Psalm 69:2
I sink in [the] mud of the deep, and there is no foothold. I have come to watery depths, and [the] torrent floods over me.
Jeremiah 38:6
So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit [of] Malchiah, the son of the king, which [was] in the courtyard of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down by ropes. Now in the pit there was no water, {but only} mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
Lamentations 3:53
{They have silenced me in a pit}, they have thrown a stone at me.

Set

Psalm 27:5
Because he will hide me in his shelter in [the] day of trouble. He will conceal me in the hiding place of his tent. He will set me high upon a rock.
Psalm 61:2
From the end of the earth I call to you when my heart grows faint. You will lead me to a rock [that is] higher than I.
Matthew 7:24
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Established

Psalm 17:5
[I have] held my steps in your path My feet will not slip.
Psalm 18:36
You enlarged my step under me, and my ankles did not slip.
Psalm 37:23
[The] steps of a man are established by Yahweh, and he takes pleasure in his way.
Psalm 119:133
Direct my steps in your word, and do not let any iniquity gain power over me.

General references

Lamentations 3:55
I have called your name, O Yahweh, from the depths of the pit.
Jonah 2:5
[The] waters encompassed me up to [my] neck; [the] deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed [are] the ones who mourn, because they will be comforted.