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 throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The miry
Psalm 69:2
I sink into the deep mire where there is no solid ground; I am in deep water, and the current overpowers me.
Jeremiah 38:6
So the officials took Jeremiah and put him in the cistern of Malkijah, one of the royal princes, that was in the courtyard of the guardhouse. There was no water in the cistern, only mud. So when they lowered Jeremiah into the cistern with ropes he sank in the mud.
Lamentations 3:53
They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.
Set
Psalm 27:5
He will surely give me shelter in the day of danger; he will hide me in his home; he will place me on an inaccessible rocky summit.
Psalm 61:2
From the most remote place on earth I call out to you in my despair. Lead me up to an inaccessible rocky summit!
Matthew 7:24
"Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.
Established
Psalm 17:5
I carefully obey your commands; I do not deviate from them.
Psalm 18:36
You widen my path; my feet do not slip.
Psalm 37:23
The Lord grants success to the one whose behavior he finds commendable.
Psalm 119:133
Direct my steps by your word! Do not let any sin dominate me!
General references
Lamentations 3:55
(Qof) I have called on your name, O Lord, from the deepest pit.
Jonah 2:5
Water engulfed me up to my neck; the deep ocean surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.
Matthew 5:4
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.