18 Bible Verses about Going Down To The Pit

Then let him be gracious to him, and say,
‘Deliver him from going down to the pit,
I have found a ransom’;

I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit;
I have become like a man without strength,

‘He has redeemed my soul from going to the pit,
And my life shall see the light.’

O Lord, You have brought up my soul from Sheol;
You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

A Psalm of David.
To You, O Lord, I call;
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.

If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’;
To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;

“Then his soul draws near to the pit,
And his life to those who bring death.

“Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol,
To the recesses of the pit.

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

“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?

then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set glory in the land of the living.

‘They will bring you down to the pit,
And you will die the death of those who are slain
In the heart of the seas.

so that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their stature, nor set their top among the clouds, nor their well-watered mighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the earth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.”

“Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and bring it down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the nether world, with those who go down to the pit;

whose graves are set in the remotest parts of the pit and her company is round about her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.

“There also are the chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who in spite of the terror resulting from their might, in shame went down with the slain. So they lay down uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

“There also is Edom, its kings and all its princes, who for all their might are laid with those slain by the sword; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.

or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”