17 Bible Verses about Pits As A Term For Graves

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Isaiah 14:15

But to hades shalt thou come down, to the thighs of the pit

Job 33:18-22

He will keep back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing away by the spear. And he was chastened with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones perpetually. His life loathed bread, and his soul food of desire.read more.
His flesh will consume away from seeing, and they saw not the nakedness of his bones. And his soul will draw near to the pit, and his life to the dead.

Psalm 28:1

To David. To thee, O Jehovah, will I call, my rock; thou wilt not be silent from me: lest thou wilt be silent from me and I was made like with them going down to the pit

Psalm 30:3-9

O Jehovah, thou broughtest up my soul from hades: thou didst save me alive from those going down to the pit Play on the harp to Jehovah, ye his godly ones, and praise at the remembrance of his holiness. For a moment in his anger; life in his acceptance: weeping shall lodge in the evening, and rejoicing for the morning.read more.
And I said in my security, I shall not be moved forever. O Jehovah, in thy good will thou didst cause strength to stand for my mountain: thou didst cover thy face, I was in trepidation. To thee, O Jehovah, will I call, and to Jehovah will I make supplication. What the profit in my blood in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it announce thy truth?

Psalm 55:23

And thou, O God, wilt bring them down to the well of destruction: men of bloods and deceit shall not halve their days; and I will trust in thee.

Psalm 69:15

The streams of water shall not overflow me, and the depth shall not swallow me down, and the well shall not close upon me her mouth.

Psalm 88:4

I was reckoned with those going down to the pit: I was as a man of no strength:

Psalm 143:7

Quickly answer me, O Jehovah: my spirit failed: thou wilt not hide thy face from me: I was made like those going down to the pit.

Proverbs 1:12

We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit:

Isaiah 14:19

And thou wert east out of thy grave as a sprout abhorred, a garment of the slain thrust through with the sword, and going down to the stones of the pit as a corpse trodden down.

Isaiah 38:17-18

Behold, for peace bitterness, to me bitterness: and thou didst cleave to my soul from the pit of destruction: and thou didst cast all my sin behind my back For not hades shall praise thee, death celebrate: they going down to the pit shall not hope for thy truth.

Ezekiel 26:20

And brought thee down with them going down to the pit to the people of old, and I set thee in the earth, underneath in desolations from forever with them going down to the pit, so that thou shalt not be inhabited; and I gave glory in the land of the living,.

Ezekiel 28:8

They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou didst die the deaths of the wounded in the heart of the seas.

Ezekiel 31:14-16

So that all the trees of the waters shall not be lifted up in height, and they shall not give their foliage between the thick boughs, and all they drinking water shall not stand upon them in their height: for they all were given to death, to the earth underneath, in the midst of the sons of man, to those going down to the pit Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the day of his going down to hades caused to mourn: I covered the deep over him, and I shall restrain its floods, and many waters shall be withheld: and I will cause Lebanon to be darkened for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. From the voice of his fall I caused the nations to tremble, in my causing him to go down to hades with those going down to the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and good of Lebanon, all drinking water and they shall be comforted in the earth underneath.

Ezekiel 32:23-25

Whose graves were given in the thighs of the pit, and her convocation will be round about her grave; all of them wounded, fallen by the sword, who gave terror in the land of the living. There Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them wounded, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the earth underneath, who gave their terror in the land of the living; and they will bear their shame with those going down to the pit In the midst of the wounded they gave a bed to her with all her multitude: her graves round about him; all of them uncircumcised, wounded of the sword: for their terror was given in the land of the living, and they shall bear their shame with those going down to the pit: he was given into the midst of the wounded.

Jonah 2:6

I shall go down to the cuttings off of the mountains; the earth, her bars about me forever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Jehovah my God.

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