Job 17:16

Will hope go down with me to the gates of the grave? Will my hope rest with me in the dust?

Job 3:17-19

There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

Jonah 2:6

I went down to the bottom of the mountains! The earth with its bars closed upon me for a very long time. Yet you have brought my life up from the pit, O Jehovah my God?

Job 18:13-14

It eats away parts of his skin. Death's firstborn devours his limbs.

Job 33:18-28

It is to preserve him from the pit and keep his life from perishing by the sword.

Psalm 88:4-8

I am numbered with those who go into the pit. I am like a man without any strength.

Psalm 143:7

Answer me quickly, O Jehovah for my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me or I will become like those who go down to the pit.

Isaiah 38:17-18

Yes, it was for my benefit that I suffered such distress. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction. You have put (thrown) (hurled) all my sins behind your back.

Ezekiel 37:11

Jehovah also said: Son of man, all the people of Israel are like these bones. The people say: Our bones are dry, and our hope has vanished. We are completely destroyed.

2 Corinthians 1:9

Yes, we have had the sentence of death within ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

General references

Bible References

The bars of the pit

Job 18:13
It eats away parts of his skin. Death's firstborn devours his limbs.
Job 33:18
It is to preserve him from the pit and keep his life from perishing by the sword.
Psalm 88:4
I am numbered with those who go into the pit. I am like a man without any strength.
Psalm 143:7
Answer me quickly, O Jehovah for my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me or I will become like those who go down to the pit.
Isaiah 38:17
Yes, it was for my benefit that I suffered such distress. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction. You have put (thrown) (hurled) all my sins behind your back.
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bottom of the mountains! The earth with its bars closed upon me for a very long time. Yet you have brought my life up from the pit, O Jehovah my God?

Rest

Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
Ezekiel 37:11
Jehovah also said: Son of man, all the people of Israel are like these bones. The people say: Our bones are dry, and our hope has vanished. We are completely destroyed.
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we have had the sentence of death within ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

General references

Isaiah 38:10
I thought that in the prime of my life I would go down to the gates of the grave and be robbed of the rest of my life.