18 Bible Verses about Going Down To The Pit

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

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

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

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

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.

if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,'

His soul draws near the pit, and his life to those who bring death.

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

Answer me quickly, O LORD! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be 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?

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.

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.

"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:

whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.

"The princes of the north are there, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down in shame with the slain, for all the terror that they caused by their might; they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

"Edom is there, her kings and all her princes, who for all their might are laid with those who are killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.

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