46 Bible Verses about Pits

Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead 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 not cover it, and an ox or an ass falls in it, the owner of the pit shall make it good and give silver to its owner. And the dead shall be his.

And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest. And they laid a very great heap of stones upon him. And all Israel fled, each one to his tent.

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada from Kabzeel, a son of a mighty man, great in deeds. He killed two lion-like men of Moab. He went down also and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in time of snow.

And He said to them, What man among you will be, who will have one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the sabbaths, will he not lay hold on it and lift it out?

And He began to speak to them by parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set a fence about it, and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and he let it out to vinedressers, and went away.

And He spoke a parable to them: Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch?

For without cause they have spread their net for me in a pit-net; without cause they have dug for my soul. Let destruction come upon him, he will not know; and let his net which he has concealed catch him, let him fall in it, into destruction.

He dug a pit and bored it, and has fallen into the ditch which he made.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; their foot is caught in the net which they hid.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me, they have fallen into it. Selah.

that You may give him rest from the days of trouble, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it; and he who rolls a stone, it will turn back to him.

Dread, and the pit, and the snare are on you, O dweller of the earth. And it shall be, he who flees from the sound of dread shall fall into the pit. And he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For the windows from on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth quake.

Should evil be repaid for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before You to do good for them, and to turn away Your wrath from them. Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and give them over to the hand of the sword. And let their wives be bereaved, and widows, and their men be slain of death; let their young men be struck by the sword in battle. Let a cry be heard from their houses, when You suddenly bring a raiding party on them. For they have dug a pit to take me, and have hidden snares for my feet.

Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be on you, O Moabite, says Jehovah. He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit; and he who goes up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For I will bring on it, even on Moab, the year of their judgment, says Jehovah.

The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and gave sureness to my steps.

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean, yet You will plunge me into the ditch and my own clothes shall despise me.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; those despised by Jehovah shall fall there.

For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

They have cut off my life in the pit, and cast a stone at me. Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off. I called on Your name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest pit.

You also, by the blood of Your covenant I have freed Your prisoners out of the pit in which is no water.

Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the Pit.

He keeps back his soul from the Pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

A Psalm of David. I will cry to You, O Jehovah; my Rock, do not be deaf to me, lest, if You be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.

O Jehovah, You have brought up my soul from the grave; You have kept me alive, so that I should not go down to the Pit.

But You, O God, will bring them down into the pit of ruin; bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days; but I will trust in You.

Do not let the flood of waters overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth on me.

I am counted with those who go down to the Pit; I am like a feeble man;

who redeems your life from ruin; who crowns you with loving-kindness and tender mercies;

Hear me quickly, O Jehovah; my spirit fails; do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the Pit.

let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit;

But you are cast out of your grave like a hateful branch, and like the clothing of those who are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trampled under foot.

Behold, I had great bitterness for peace; but You loved my soul from the pit of destruction. You have cast all my sins behind Your back. For the grave cannot praise You, death can not rejoice in You; they who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

when I shall bring you down with those who go down into the Pit, with the people of old time, and shall set you in the low parts of the earth, in places ruined in days of old, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you have no inhabitants (but I gave glory in the land of the living)

They shall bring you down to the Pit, and you shall die the deaths of those slain in the heart of the seas.

to the end that none of all the trees by the waters shall be exalted in their height, nor give their top among the thick boughs, nor should their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water. For all of them are given to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the sons of men, with those who go down into the Pit.

their graves are set in the sides of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, those who caused terror in the land of the living. There is Elam and her multitude all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living. Yet they have borne their shame with those who go down to the Pit. They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are all around him; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; though their terror was given in the land of the living, yet they have borne their shame with those who go down to the Pit. He is put among the slain.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was around me forever; yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.

For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared. He has made it deep and large. He makes great with fire and wood. The breath of Jehovah kindles it, like a torrent of brimstone.