46 Bible Verses about Pits
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Let them go: they are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and shall not cover it, and an ox fall there, or an ass: The lord of the pit shall recompense; he shall turn back silver to his lord and the dead shall be to him.
And they will take Absalom and cast him in the forest into a great pit, and they will set upon him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled each to his tent.
And Benaiah son of Jehoida, son of a living man great of works, from Kabzeel, he struck two lions of god of Moab: and he went down and struck a lion in the midst of a well in the day of snow.
And he said to them, Which of you shall be the man who shall have one sheep, and if this should fall into a pit in the sabbaths, will he not take hold of it, and raise it up?
And be began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence round, and digged a winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.
And he spake to them a parable, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
For gratuitously they hid for me the destruction of their net: gratuitously they dug for my soul. Desolation shall come to him not knowing, and his net which he hid shall take him: in destruction he shall fall in it
He dug a pit, and he will dig it out, and he will fall into the pitfall he will make.
The nations sank into the pit they made: in the net they hid, their foot was taken by it
They prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bent down: they dug a pit before me, they fell into the midst of it. Silence.
To give rest to him from the days of evil, till the pit shall be dug for the unjust
He digging a pit shall fall into it: and he rolling a stone it shall turn back upon him.
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, upon thee, thou inhabiters of the earth. And it was he fleeing from the voice of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he coming up out of the midst of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from the height were opened, and the foundations of the earth, will tremble.
Shall evil be requited for good? for they dug a pit for my soul. Remember my standing before thee to speak good for them, to turn back thy wrath from them. For this, give their sons to the famine, and pour them out upon the hands of the sword; and their wives shall be bereaved of offspring, and be widows; and their men shall be slain by death; their young men struck of the sword in battle. A cry shall be heard from their houses, for thou shalt bring upon them a trap suddenly, for they dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet
Fear, and the pit and the snare upon thee, thou inhabiting Moab, says Jehovah. He fleeing from the face of fear shall fall into the pit; and he coming up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, upon Moab, the years of their reviewing, says Jehovah.
And the nations will hear concerning him; in their pit he was taken, and they will bring him with hooks to the land of Egypt
And he will bring me up from the pit of destruction, from the clay of mire, and he will set my feet upon a rock, preparing my goings.
If I washed myself in snow-water, and cleansed my hands clean; Then thou wilt immerse me in the ditch, and my garments abhorred me.
For a harlot is a deep ditch; and a strong woman a narrow well.
They cut off my life in the pit, and cast a stone upon me. Waters were spread over my head; I said I was cut off. I called thy name, O Jehovah, in the pit underneath.
Also thou by the blood of thy covenant I sent forth thy bound ones from the pit no water in it
But to hades shalt thou come down, to the thighs of the pit
He will keep back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing away by the spear.
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
O Jehovah, thou broughtest up my soul from hades: thou didst save me alive from those going down to the pit
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.
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.
I was reckoned with those going down to the pit: I was as a man of no strength:
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.
We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit:
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.
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.
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,.
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou didst die the deaths of the wounded in the heart of the seas.
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
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.
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.
For tophet was set in order from yesterday; also it was prepared; for the king, he made deep, he made broad, its pile fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah as a torrent of pitch burned upon it
Topics on Pits
Digging Pits
Proverbs 26:27He digging a pit shall fall into it: and he rolling a stone it shall turn back upon him.
Opening Pits
Revelation 9:2And he opened the well of the bottomless pit; and a smoke went up out of the well, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun was darkened, and the air, from the smoke of the well.
Pits Symbolizing Grief
Isaiah 38:17Behold, 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