9 Bible Verses about Pits Symbolizing Grief

Indeed, it was for my own welfare
that I had such great bitterness;
but Your love has delivered me
from the Pit of destruction,
for You have thrown all my sins behind Your back.

A man burdened by bloodguilt
will be a fugitive until death.
Let no one help him.

He brought me up from a desolate pit,
out of the muddy clay,
and set my feet on a rock,
making my steps secure.

If I wash myself with snow,
and cleanse my hands with lye,
then You dip me in a pit of mud,
and my own clothes despise me!

You have put me in the lowest part of the Pit,
in the darkest places, in the depths.

The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit;
a man cursed by the Lord will fall into it.

For a prostitute is a deep pit,
and a stranger is a narrow well;

They dropped me alive into a pit
and threw stones at me.
Water flooded over my head,
and I thought: I’m going to die! ק QofI called on Your name, Yahweh,
from the depths of the Pit.

As for you,
because of the blood of your covenant,
I will release your prisoners
from the waterless cistern.