45 Bible Verses about Pits

Leave them. They are blind leaders of blind men, and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a ditch.

And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it, the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to the owner of it, and the dead [beast] shall be his.

And they took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every man to his tent.

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

And he said to them, What man of you will there be, who will have one sheep, and if this falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not grasp it, and lift it out?

And he began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set up a hedge, and dug a winevat, and built a tower, and leased it to farmers, and went on a journey.

And he spoke a parable to them. Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a ditch?

For without cause they have hid their net for me [in] a pit. Without cause have they dug [a pit] for my soul. Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net that he has hid catch himself. Let him fall in it with destruction.

He has made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me. They are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Selah.

that thou may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for a wicked man.

He who digs a pit shall fall in it, and he who rolls a stone, it shall return upon him.

Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit, and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For the windows on high are opened, and the foundations o

Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them. Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword, and let their wives become childless, and widows, and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battl Let a cry be heard from their houses when thou shall bring a troop suddenly upon them, for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

Fear and the pit and the snare are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, says LORD. He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit, and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For I will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, says LORD.

The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean, yet thou will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

Thou have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.

The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of LORD shall fall in it.

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me. Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.

As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

Yet thou shall be brought down to Sheol, to the utmost parts of the pit.

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

To thee, O LORD, I will call. My rock, be not thou deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.

O LORD, thou have brought up my soul from Sheol. Thou have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

But thou, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.

Let not the water flood overwhelm me, nor let the deep shallow me up. And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help,

who redeems thy life from destruction, who crowns thee with loving kindness and tender mercies,

Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.

But thou are cast forth away from thy sepulcher like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, as a dead body trodden under foot.

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back. For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

then I will bring thee down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, th

They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shall die the death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.

to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all that drink water. For they are all

whose graves are set in the outermost parts of the pit. And her company is round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living. There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have bor They have set a bed for her in the midst of the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are round about her, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. For their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth with its bars [closed] upon me forever. Yet thou have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

For a Topheth is prepared of old, yea, it is made ready for the king. He has made it deep and large. The pile of it is fire and much wood. The breath of LORD kindles it, like a stream of brimstone.