46 Bible Verses about Pits

Let them be. They are blind guides. If a blind man guides another blind man, they will fall in a hole together.

If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, the owner of the pit shall make restitution. He will give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.

They took Absalom's body and threw it into a deep pit in the forest. Then they covered it with a huge pile of stones. All the Israelites fled to their own hometowns.

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a brave man from Kabzeel who did some amazing things. He killed two of Moab's best fighters. On a snowy day he went down into a pit and killed a lion.

He said to them: Which of you having one sheep, if this sheep fell into a pit on the Sabbath day, will not get it and lift it out.

He taught them with illustrations: A man had a vineyard planted. He built a wall around it. He prepared a place for crushing out the wine and put up a tower. Then he rented it out to field workers, and went into another country.

He told them an illustration: Can the blind guide the blind? Would they both fall into a pit?

They hid their net in a pit for no reason. They dug the pit to trap me for no reason. Surprise them with destruction. Let the net that they hid catch them. Let them fall into their own pit and be destroyed.

They dig out a pit and fall into the hole that they have made.

The nations have dug a pit and fallen in. They have been caught in their own trap.

They have prepared a net for my steps. I am bowed down. They dig a pit before me. But they have fallen into it.

You give them rest from days of trouble until a pit is dug to trap the wicked.

He who digs a pit will fall in it. He who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.

Terror and traps and snares will be your lot, you people of the earth. Those who flee in terror will fall into a trap, and those who escape the trap will step into a snare. Destruction falls on you from the heavens. The world is shaken beneath you.

Should good be repaid with evil? For they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before you to speak good on their behalf. I tried to turn away your wrath from them. Therefore, give their children over to famine and deliver them up to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death and their young men struck down by the sword in battle. Let an outcry be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring raiders upon them. For they have dug a pit to capture me and hidden snares for my feet.

Fear, deep pits, and traps wait for you people of Moab,' says Jehovah. People will run out of fear, but they will fall into the pits. Those who climb out of the pits will be caught in the traps.' I will bring the year of punishment to Moab, says Jehovah.

The nations heard about him. He was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the mud and clay. He set my feet upon a rock and made me stand erect.

If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with soap, Yet you will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

You have put me in the bottom of the pit, in deep dark places.

The mouth of the adulterous is a deep pit. The one who is cursed by Jehovah will fall into it.

A prostitute is a deep pit. An adulterous wife is a well of tribulation.

They sentence my life to prison and keep hurling stones at me. Waters were flowing over my head; I said: I am cut off. I called out your name in prayer, O Jehovah, out of the lowest prison.

I set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. This is because of the blood of your covenant!

But you have been brought down to the grave, to the deepest part of the pit.

It is to preserve him from the pit and keep his life from perishing by the sword.

([Psalm of David]) O Jehovah, I call to you. O my rock, do not turn a deaf ear to me. If you remain silent, I will be like those who go down to the pit (grave).

O Jehovah, you brought me up from the grave. You kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

But You, O God, will bring them down to the corruption of the grave. Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

Do not let the floodwaters overwhelm me; neither let the deep swallow me up. Do not let the pit shut its mouth on me.

I am numbered with those who go into the pit. I am like a man without any strength.

He redeems your life from ruin and crowns you with loving-kindness and tender mercies.

Answer me quickly, O Jehovah for my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me or I will become like those who go down to the pit.

Let us swallow them alive and whole just as the grave does, and just as the dead go into the pit.

However you are thrown out of your tomb like a rejected branch. You are covered with those who were killed in battle. You go down to the stones (bottom) of the pit like a trampled corpse.

Yes, it was for my benefit that I suffered such distress. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction. You have put (thrown) (hurled) all my sins behind your back. For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit (grave), to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth. It will be like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit (grave), so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set glory in the land of the living.

They will throw you into a pit. You will die a violent death in the sea.

so that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their stature, nor set their top among the clouds, nor their well-watered mighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the earth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.'

Their graves are in the deepest parts of the pit. Assyria's army lies around its grave. All of its soldiers are dead. They have been killed in battle. They once terrified people in the land of the living. Elam is there with all its soldiers. The graves of its soldiers are all around it. All of its soldiers are dead. They have been killed in battle. They went down below the earth as godless people. They once terrified people in the land of the living. Now they suffer disgrace with those who have gone down to the pit. A bed has been made for Elam among the dead. The graves of its soldiers are all around it. The soldiers were godless people. They were killed in battle because they terrified others in the land of the living. They suffer disgrace with those who have gone down to the pit. They lie among the dead.

I went down to the bottom of the mountains! The earth with its bars closed upon me for a very long time. Yet you have brought my life up from the pit, O Jehovah my God?

Topheth was prepared long ago. It was made ready for the king. It was made deep and wide and piled high with plenty of burning logs. Jehovah's breath will be like a flood of burning sulfur, setting it on fire.