Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

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.

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

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.

That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

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.

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.