'Pit' in the Bible
He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into the hole that he made.
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid is their own foot taken.
{A Psalm of David.} Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, if thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, thou hast quickened me from among those that go down to the pit.
What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
For without cause have they hidden for me their net in a pit; without cause they have digged it for my soul.
And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings:
And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee.
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down: they have digged a pit before me; they are fallen into the midst thereof. Selah.
Let not the flood of waters overflow 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 strength:
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
That thou mayest give him rest from the days of evil, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
Who redeemeth thy life from the pit, who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;
Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, or I shall be like unto them that go down into the pit.