'Pit' in the Bible
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
{A Psalm of David.} Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: 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, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody 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, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
I am counted 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 darkness, in the deeps.
That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.