46 Bible Verses about Pits

Leave them! They are blind guides. If someone who is blind leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit."

"If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, the owner of the pit must repay the loss. He must give money to its owner, and the dead animal will become his.

They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and stacked a huge pile of stones over him. In the meantime all the Israelite soldiers fled to their homes.

Benaiah son of Jehoida was a brave warrior from Kabzeel who performed great exploits. He struck down the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in a cistern on a snowy day.

He said to them, "Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?

Then he began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

He also told them a parable: "Someone who is blind cannot lead another who is blind, can he? Won't they both fall into a pit?

I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me. Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

he digs a pit and then falls into the hole he has made.

The nations fell into the pit they had made; their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.

They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it! (Selah)

in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed.

The one who digs a pit will fall into it; the one who rolls a stone -- it will come back on him.

Terror, pit, and snare are ready to overtake you inhabitants of the earth! The one who runs away from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit; the one who climbs out of the pit, will be trapped by the snare. For the floodgates of the heavens are opened up and the foundations of the earth shake.

Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me. Just remember how I stood before you pleading on their behalf to keep you from venting your anger on them. So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle. Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.

Terror, pits, and traps are in store for the people who live in Moab. I, the Lord, affirm it! Anyone who flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit. Anyone who climbs out of the pit will be caught in a trap. For the time is coming when I will punish the people of Moab. I, the Lord, affirm it!

The nations heard about him; he was trapped in their pit. They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

He lifted me out of the watery pit, out of the slimy mud. He placed my feet on a rock and gave me secure footing.

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye, then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.

You place me in the lowest regions of the pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.

The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well.

They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me. The waters closed over my head; I thought I was about to die. (Qof) I have called on your name, O Lord, from the deepest pit.

Moreover, as for you, because of our covenant relationship secured with blood, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

But you were brought down to Sheol, to the remote slopes of the pit.

He spares a person's life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.

By David. To you, O Lord, I cry out! My protector, do not ignore me! If you do not respond to me, I will join those who are descending into the grave.

O Lord, you pulled me up from Sheol; you rescued me from among those descending into the grave.

But you, O God, will bring them down to the deep Pit. Violent and deceitful people will not live even half a normal lifespan. But as for me, I trust in you.

Don't let the current overpower me! Don't let the deep swallow me up! Don't let the pit devour me!

They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,

who delivers your life from the Pit, who crowns you with his loyal love and compassion,

Answer me quickly, Lord! My strength is fading. Do not reject me, or I will join those descending into the grave.

We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.

"Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight. Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.

then I will bring you down to bygone people, to be with those who descend to the pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand in the land of the living.

They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die violently in the heart of the seas.

For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; they will be among mere mortals, with those who descend to the pit.

Their graves are located in the remote slopes of the pit. Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living. "Elam is there with all her hordes around her grave; all of them struck down by the sword. They went down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, those who spread terror in the land of the living. Now they will bear their shame with those who descend to the pit. Among the dead they have made a bed for her, along with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for their terror had spread in the land of the living. They bear their shame along with those who descend to the pit; they are placed among the dead.

I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O Lord, my God.

For the burial place is already prepared; it has been made deep and wide for the king. The firewood is piled high on it. The Lord's breath, like a stream flowing with brimstone, will ignite it.