46 Bible Verses about Pits

Let them alone, they be the blind leaders of the blind. If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

"If a man open a well or dig a pit and cover it not, but that an ox or an ass fall therein, the owner of the pit shall make it good and give money unto their master, and the dead beast shall be his.

And they took Absalom and cast him into a great pit that was in the wood, and cast a mighty great heap of stones upon him. And all Israel fled every man to his tent.

Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada the son of a lusty man valiant in acts of Kabzeel, he slew two lions of Moab. He went down and slew a lion in a pit in time of snow.

And he said unto them, "Which of you would it be, if he had a sheep fallen into a pit on the Sabbath day, that would not take him and lift him out?

And he began to speak unto them in similitudes. "A certain man planted a vineyard, and compassed it with a hedge, and ordained a winepress, and built a tower in it, and let it out to hire unto husbandmen, and went into a strange country.

And he put forth a similitude unto them, "Can the blind lead the blind? Do they not both then fall into the ditch?

For they have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause; yea, and made a pit for my soul, which I never deserved. Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares, and his net that he hath laid privily catch himself, that he may fall into his own mischief.

He hath graven and dug up a pit, and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for others.

The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken.

They have laid a net for my feet, and pressed down my soul: they have digged a pit before me, and are fallen into it themselves. Selah.

that thou mayest give him patience in time of adversity, until the pit be digged up for the ungodly.

Whoso diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein; and he that weltereth a stone, shall stumble upon it himself.

Fearfulness, the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou that dwellest upon the earth. It will come to pass, that whoso escapeth the terrible cry, shall fall in to the pit. And if he come out of the pit, he shall be taken with the snare. For the windows above shall be opened, and the foundations of the earth shall move.

Do they not recompense evil for good, when they dig a pit for my soul? Remember, how that I stood before thee, to speak for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them. Therefore let their children die of hunger, and let them be oppressed with the sword. Let their wives be robbed of their children, and become widows: let their husbands be slain, let their young men be killed with the sword in the field. Let the noise be heard out of their houses, when the murderer cometh suddenly upon them: For they have digged a pit to take me, and laid snares for my feet.

Fear, pit, and snare shall come upon thee, O Moab, sayeth the LORD. Whoso escapeth the fear, shall fall in the pit: and whoso getteth out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare. For I will bring a year of visitation upon Moab, sayeth the LORD.

The heathen heard of him, and took him in their nets, and brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

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.

Yet dare I say, that thou shalt be brought down to the deep of hell.

keepeth his soul from destruction, and his life from the sword.

{A Psalm of David} Unto thee will I cry, O LORD, my strength; think no scorn of me, lest, if thou make as though thou hearest not, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Thou, LORD, hast brought my soul out of hell: thou hast kept my life from them that go down to the pit.

But as for them, thou, O God, shalt bring them into the pit of destruction. The bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. Nevertheless, my trust shall be in thee, O LORD.

Let not the water-flood drown me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit, and I am even as a man that hath no strength;

Who saveth thy life from destruction, and crowneth thee with mercy, and loving-kindness?

Hear me, O LORD, and that soon, for my spirit waxeth faint; hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the grave.

Let us swallow them up like the hell, let us devour them quick and whole, as those that go down into the pit.

and thou art cast out of thy grave like a wild branch - like as dead men's raiment that are shot through with the sword, as they that go down to the stones of the deep, as a dead corpse that is trodden under feet -

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. For hell praiseth not thee, death doth not magnify thee. They that go down into the grave, praise not thy truth:

Then will I cast thee down unto them, that descend into the pit, unto a people that hath been long dead, and set thee in a land that is beneath, like the old wilderness, with them which go down to their graves, so that no man shall dwell more in thee. And I will make thee to be no more in honor, in the land of the living.

They shall cast thee down to the pit, so that thou shalt die in the midst of the sea,

so that from henceforth, no tree in the water shall attain to his highness, nor reach his top unto the clouds, neither shall any tree of the water stand so high, as he hath done. For unto death shall they all be delivered under the earth, and go down to the grave, like other men.

whose graves lie beside him in the low pit. His commons are buried round about his grave: all together wounded and slain with the sword, which men afore time brought fear in to the land of the living. There is Elam also with all his people, and their graves round about: which all being wounded and slain with the sword, are gone down uncircumcised under the earth. Which, nevertheless, sometime brought fear into the land of the living: for the which they bear their shame, with the others that be gone down to the grave. Their burial is given them and all their people, among them that be slain. Their graves are round about all them, which be uncircumcised, and with them that be slain through the sword: for seeing that in times past they made the land of the living afraid, they must now bear their own shame, with them that go down to the pit, and lie among them, that be slain.

And I went down unto the bottom of the hills, and was barred in with earth on every side forever. And yet thou, LORD my God, broughtest up my life again out of corruption.

For the fire of pain is ordained from the beginning: yea, even for kings it is prepared. This hath the LORD set in the deep, and made it wide: the burning whereof is fire and much wood. The breath of the LORD, which is a river of brimstone, doth kindle it.