9 Bible Verses about Pits Symbolizing Grief

Behold, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean; Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me. Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit wherein is no water.