"The engulfing waters threatened me, the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head. To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you, LORD my God, brought my life up from the pit."
seaweed was wrapped around my head
Psalm 69:1-2 Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in the miry depths.
To the roots of the mountains I sank down
Job 28:9 People assault the flinty rock with their hands and lay bare the roots of the mountains.
But you, LORD my God, brought my life up from the pit
Job 17:16 "Will it (my hope) go down to the gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?"
Job 33:14-18 "For God does speak--now one way, now another--though no one perceives it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds, he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings, to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride, to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword."
Job 33:28 "God has delivered me from going down to the pit, and I shall live to enjoy the light of life."
Psalm 30:3 You, LORD, brought me up from the realm of the dead; you spared me from going down to the pit.
Psalm 28:1 To you, LORD I call; you are my Rock, do not turn a deaf ear to me. For if you remain silent, I will be like those who go down to the pit.
Psalm 69:15 Do not let the flood waters engulf me or the depths swallow me up or the pit close its mouth over me.
Isaiah 38:17 Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back. (Hezekiah)
(parentheses are mine)
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