You place me in the lowest regions of the pit, ¹  in the dark places, in the watery depths.

for a prostitute is like ¹  a deep pit; a harlot ²  is like ³  a narrow well. ⁴ 

Then they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the cistern was empty; ¹  there was no water in it.)

“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,

But you were brought down ¹  to Sheol, to the remote slopes of the pit. ² 

They shut me ¹  up in a pit and threw stones at me.

he digs a pit ¹  and then falls into the hole he has made. ² 

Terror, pit, and snare are ready to overtake you inhabitants of the earth! ¹ 

Terror, pits, and traps ¹  are in store for the people who live in Moab. ²  I, the Lord, affirm it! ³ 

Later Reuben returned to the cistern to find that Joseph was not in it! ¹  He tore his clothes,

He spares a person’s life from corruption, ¹  his very life from crossing over ²  the river.

ק (Qof) I have called on your name, O Lord, from the deepest pit. ¹ 

I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me. ¹ 

We will swallow them alive ¹  like Sheol, ²  those full of vigor ³  like those going down to the Pit.

The mouth ¹  of an adulteress is like ²  a deep pit; ³  the one against whom the Lord is angry ⁴  will fall into it. ⁵ 

in order to protect him from times of trouble, ¹  until the wicked are destroyed. ² 

One who digs a pit may ¹  fall into it, and one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake. ² 

He redeemed my life ¹  from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’

to turn back his life from the place of corruption, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

They treat me like ¹  those who descend into the grave. ²  I am like a helpless man, ³