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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
General references
Bible References
The bars of the pit
Job 18:13
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the first-born of death shall devour his strength.
Job 33:18
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Psalm 88:4
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Psalm 143:7
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like them that go down into the pit.
Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for peace 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 her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD 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 to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
2 Corinthians 1:9
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
General references
Isaiah 38:10
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.