Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Bible References

Mayest

Isaiah 26:20
Go, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide for {a very little} while, until [the] wrath has passed over.
Habakkuk 3:16
I hear and my stomach shakes; my lips quiver at the sound; infection enters my bones; that which [is] beneath me trembles; I wait quietly for the day of trouble to come upon the people attacking us.
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory {beyond all measure and proportion},
2 Thessalonians 1:7
and to you who are being afflicted, rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels,
Hebrews 4:9
Consequently a sabbath rest remains for the people of God.
Revelation 14:13
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write: 'Blessed [are] the dead who die in the Lord from now on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "in order that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow after them."

Until the pit

Psalm 9:15
[The] nations have fallen in [the] pit [that] they made; their foot is caught in [the] net that they hid.
Psalm 55:23
But you, O God, you will bring them down to [the] pit of corruption. [The] men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days, but I will trust you.
Jeremiah 18:20
Should good be repaid in place of evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember my standing {before you} to speak good for them, to avert your wrath from them.
2 Peter 2:9
[then] the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to reserve the unrighteous to be punished at the day of judgment,
2 Peter 3:3
above all knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following according to their own desires
Revelation 6:10
and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, "{How long}, holy and true Lord, will you not judge and avenge our blood from those who live on the earth?"
Revelation 11:18
And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and to give their reward to your slaves the prophets and to the saints and to the ones who fear your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth."