The earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness was upon the face of the very great deep. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters.

Let not the floodwaters overflow and overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up nor the [dug] pit [with water perhaps in the bottom] close its mouth over me.

[Those aboard] mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the deeps; their courage melts away because of their plight.

And they begged [Jesus] not to command them to depart into the Abyss (bottomless pit).

Or who will descend into the abyss? that is, to bring Christ up from the dead [as if we could be saved by our own efforts].

Then the fifth angel blew [his] trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth; and to the angel was given the key of the shaft of the Abyss (the bottomless pit).

But when they have finished their testimony and their evidence is all in, the beast (monster) that comes up out of the Abyss (bottomless pit) will wage war on them, and conquer them and kill them.