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Summary
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
The bars of the pit
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Bible References
The bars of the pit
Job 18:13
The members of his body shall be devoured, Yea , the first-born of death shall devour his members.
Job 33:18
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
Psalm 88:4
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,
Psalm 143:7
Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
Isaiah 38:17
Behold, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
Rest
Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.
Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
2 Corinthians 1:9
yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
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Isaiah 38:10
I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.