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 shall cast them into a furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

The miry

Psalm 69:2
I stick fast in the deep mire, where no ground is; I am come into deep waters, so that the floods run over me.
Jeremiah 38:6
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that dwelt in the fore entry of the prison. And they let down Jeremiah with cords into a dungeon, where there was no water, but mire.
Lamentations 3:53
They have put down my life into a pit, and laid a stone upon me.

Set

Psalm 27:5
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle; yea in the secret place of his dwelling shall he hide me, and set me up upon a rock of stone.
Psalm 61:2
From the ends of the earth will I call unto thee, when my heart is in heaviness. O set me up upon the rock that is higher than I;
Matthew 7:24
"Whosoever heareth of me these sayings, and doeth the same, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house on a rock:

Established

Psalm 17:5
O hold thou up my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps slip not.
Psalm 18:36
Thou shalt make room enough under me for to go, that my footsteps shall not slide. {TYNDALE: And thou madest me space to walk in, that my feet should not stumble.}
Psalm 37:23
The LORD ordereth a good man's going, and hath pleasure in his way.
Psalm 119:133
Order my steps in thy word; and so shall no wickedness have dominion over me.

General references

Lamentations 3:55
{Kuf} I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the deep pit.
Jonah 2:5
The water compassed me even unto the very soul of me; the deep lay about me, and the weeds were wrapped about mine head.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.