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“If anyone uncovers a pit or digs one and fails to cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
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the one who opened the pit must pay the owner for the loss and take the dead animal in exchange.
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They took Absalom, threw him into a big pit in the forest and piled up a large heap of rocks over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled to their homes.
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Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant fighter from Kabzeel, performed great exploits. He struck down Moab’s two mightiest warriors. He also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.
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Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant fighter from Kabzeel, performed great exploits. He struck down Moab’s two mightiest warriors. He also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.
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you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.
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to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword.
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They draw near to the pit, and their life to the messengers of death.
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and he is gracious to that person and says to God, ‘Spare them from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom for them—
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God has delivered me from going down to the pit, and I shall live to enjoy the light of life.’
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to turn them back from the pit, that the light of life may shine on them.
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Whoever digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit they have made.
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The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
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Psalm 28
Of David.
To you, Lord, I call; you are my Rock, do not turn a deaf ear to me. For if you remain silent, I will be like those who go down to the pit.
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You, Lord, brought me up from the realm of the dead; you spared me from going down to the pit.
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“What is gained if I am silenced, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your faithfulness?
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Since they hid their net for me without cause and without cause dug a pit for me,
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may ruin overtake them by surprise— may the net they hid entangle them, may they fall into the pit, to their ruin.
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He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.
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But you, God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of decay; the bloodthirsty and deceitful will not live out half their days. But as for me, I trust in you.
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They spread a net for my feet— I was bowed down in distress. They dug a pit in my path— but they have fallen into it themselves.
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Do not let the floodwaters engulf me or the depths swallow me up or the pit close its mouth over me.
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I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like one without strength.
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You have put me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
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you grant them relief from days of trouble, till a pit is dug for the wicked.
