for peace I had great bitterness.

Job 3:25, 26
For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me. . . .

Job 29:18
So I thought: 'I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

Psalm 30:6, 7
In prosperity I said, "I will never be shaken." . . .

Psalm 30:3
O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.

Psalm 40:2
He lifted me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

Psalm 86:13
For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

Psalm 88:4-6
I am counted among those descending to the pit. I am like a man without strength. . . .

Jonah 2:6
To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!

thou hast cast

Isaiah 43:25
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

Psalm 10:2
In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Psalm 85:2
You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah

Jeremiah 31:34
No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD, ' because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity and will remember their sins no more."

Micah 7:18, 19
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance--who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion? . . .