Psalm 88:4

I am counted among those who go down to the pit (grave);
I am like a man who has no strength [a mere shadow],

Psalm 28:1

To you I call, O Lord,
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit (grave).

Psalm 143:7

Answer me quickly, O Lord, my spirit fails;
Do not hide Your face from me,
Or I will become like those who go down into the pit (grave).

Job 17:1

“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The grave is ready for me.

Psalm 30:9

“What profit is there in my blood (death), if I go down to the pit (grave)?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness [to man]?

Psalm 31:12

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a broken vessel.

Psalm 109:22-24

For I am suffering and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.

Isaiah 38:17-18

“Indeed, it was for my own well-being that I had such bitterness;
But You have loved back my life from the pit of nothingness (destruction),
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit (the place of the dead), to the people of old, and I will make you [Tyre] live in the depths of the earth, like the ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set glory and splendor in the land of the living.

Jonah 2:6

“I descended to the [very] roots of the mountains.
The earth with its bars closed behind me [bolting me in] forever,
Yet You have brought up my life from the pit (death), O Lord my God.

Romans 5:6

While we were still helpless [powerless to provide for our salvation], at the right time Christ died [as a substitute] for the ungodly.

2 Corinthians 1:9

Indeed, we felt within ourselves that we had received the sentence of death [and were convinced that we would die, but this happened] so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For even though He was crucified in weakness [yielding Himself], yet He lives [resurrected] by the power of God [His Father]. For we too are weak in Him [as He was humanly weak], yet we are alive and well [in fellowship] with Him because of the power of God directed toward you.

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