18 Bible Verses about Going Down To The Pit

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

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

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

{A Psalm of David.} Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

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

When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;

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

To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether 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, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

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

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

Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)