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 shall cast them into the furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
The miry
Psalm 69:2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Jeremiah 38:6
And they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the prison. And they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And there was no water in the pit, only mud. So Jeremiah sank into the mud.
Lamentations 3:53
They have cut off my life in the pit, and cast a stone at me.
Set
Psalm 27:5
For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His shelter, in the secrecy of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me up on a rock.
Psalm 61:2
From the end of the earth I cry to You when my heart is faint; Lead me to the Rock higher than I.
Matthew 7:24
Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.
Established
Psalm 17:5
My steps have been held in Your paths, so that my footsteps have not slipped.
Psalm 18:36
You have given a wide place for my steps under me, so that my feet have not slipped.
Psalm 37:23
The steps of a good man are ordered by Jehovah; and He delights in his way.
Psalm 119:133
Order my steps in Your Word; and do not let any iniquity rule over me.
General references
Lamentations 3:55
I called on Your name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest pit.
Jonah 2:5
Waters encompassed me, even to the soul; the depth closed around me; the seaweed was bound to my head.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn! For they shall be comforted.