18 Bible Verses about Going Down To The Pit

Then he will be gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:

He hath delivered my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall see the light.

Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, thou hast quickened me from among those that go down to the pit.

{A Psalm of David.} Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, if thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!

And his soul draweth near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

none the less art thou brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.

Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, or I shall be like unto them that go down into the pit.

What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

then will I bring thee down, with them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and will cause thee to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of those that are slain in the heart of the seas.

to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, nor set their top amidst the thick boughs, and that none of them that drink water stand up in his height by himself; for they are all given over unto death in the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, her and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the lower parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

their graves are set in the sides of the pit, and his assemblage is round about his grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, that are gone down with the slain ashamed of the terror which they caused through their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and bear their confusion with them that go down to the pit.

There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid with them that are slain by the sword: they lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.

or, Who shall descend into the abyss? that is, to bring up Christ from among the dead.