'Pit' in the Bible
He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit; Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee.
They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. Selah
Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit be digged for the wicked.
Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.