9 Bible Verses about Pits Symbolizing Grief

Behold, bitter as gall was my pensiveness: so sore longed I for health. And it was thy pleasure to deliver me from the filthy pit: for thou it is, O Lord, that hath cast all my sins behind thy back.

He that by violence sheddeth any man's blood, shall be a renagade unto his grave; and no man shall be able to succor him.

He brought me out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay; he set my feet upon the rock, and ordered my goings.

Though I washed my self with snowy water, and made mine hands never so clean, yet shouldest thou dip me in the mire, and mine own clothes should defile me.

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in a place of darkness and in the deep.

The mouth of a harlot is a deep pit; wherein he falleth that the LORD is angry withal.

For a whore is a deep grave, and a harlot is a narrow pit.

They have put down my life into a pit, and laid a stone upon me. They poured water upon my head, then thought I, "Now am I undone." {Kuf} I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the deep pit.

Thou also, through the blood of thy covenant, shalt let thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water.