Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams."

To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.

"What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?

The insolent have dug pitfalls for me; they do not live according to your law.

The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.

So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the hill country.

And they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.

"When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, the owner of the pit shall make restoration. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.

The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.

O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.

Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns; they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads.

Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men whom he had struck down along with Gedaliah was the large cistern that King Asa had made for defense against Baasha king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.

and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.

he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.

and he is merciful to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom;

He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.'

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be lighted with the light of life.

The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah

For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.

He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.

He who is bowed down shall speedily be released; he shall not die and go down to the pit, neither shall his bread be lacking.

So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

"My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern, and he will die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city."

All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds, and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, to the world below, among the children of man, with those who go down to the pit.

I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the world below.

"Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:

"Elam is there, and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams."

"When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

Nevertheless, a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean, but whoever touches a carcass in them shall be unclean.

When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,

When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,

Behold, even now he has hidden himself in one of the pits or in some other place. And as soon as some of the people fall at the first attack, whoever hears it will say, 'There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.'

And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest and raised over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every one to his own home.

To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;

But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.

Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!

Terror, pit, and snare are before you, O inhabitant of Moab! declares the LORD.

panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;

The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.

And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.

And he said to them, "Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?"

And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.

Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams." But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, "Let us not take his life." read more. And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him"--that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father. So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore. And they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it. Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt. Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers listened to him. Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt. When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes

But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD."

So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"

he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.

and he is merciful to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom;

He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.'

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be lighted with the light of life.

The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.

To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

"What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?

For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.

He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.

I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength,

You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep.

then I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living.

They shall thrust you down into the pit, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas.

As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.