9 Bible Verses about Pits Symbolizing Grief

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Isaiah 38:17

“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.

Proverbs 28:17

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

Job 9:30-31

“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.

Psalm 88:6

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

Proverbs 23:27

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

Lamentations 3:53-55

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.

Zechariah 9:11

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

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