'Pit' in the Bible
He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.
Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.
I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.