9 Bible Verses about Pits Symbolizing Grief

“Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;
It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

A man who is laden with the guilt of human blood
Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.

He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.

“If I should wash myself with snow
And cleanse my hands with lye,
Yet You would plunge me into the pit,
And my own clothes would abhor me.

You have put me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit;
He who is cursed of the Lord will fall into it.

For a harlot is a deep pit
And an adulterous woman is a narrow well.

They have silenced me in the pit
And have placed a stone on me.
Waters flowed over my head;
I said, “I am cut off!”
I called on Your name, O Lord,
Out of the lowest pit.

As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you,
I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.