18 Bible Verses about Going Down To The Pit

to be gracious to him and say: 'Spare him from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom for him!'

I am numbered with those who go into the pit. I am like a man without any strength.

He redeemed me from going down to the pit, and I will live to enjoy the light.

O Jehovah, you brought me up from the grave. You kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

([Psalm of David]) O Jehovah, I call to you. O my rock, do not turn a deaf ear to me. If you remain silent, I will be like those who go down to the pit (grave).

If I say to the pit: You are my father! And to the worm: You are my mother and sister!

He draws near to the pit and to the messengers of death.

But you have been brought down to the grave, to the deepest part of the pit.

Answer me quickly, O Jehovah for 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 truth?

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

They will throw you into a pit. You will die a violent death in the sea.

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, cry for the many people of Egypt. Bring them down along with the other mighty nations. Send them down below the earth to be with those who have gone down to the pit.

Their graves are in the deepest parts of the pit. Assyria's army lies around its grave. All of its soldiers are dead. They have been killed in battle. They once terrified people in the land of the living.

All the rulers from the north and all the people from Sidon are there. They also went down with the dead. They are disgraced because they terrified people with their power. They were godless people. Now they lie with those who were killed in battle. They suffer disgrace with those who went down to the pit.

Edom is there with its kings and its princes. They used to be powerful, but now they lie with those who were killed in battle. They lie there with the godless people and with those who have gone down to the pit.

or 'who will descend into the abyss? That is, to bring up Christ from among the dead.'