Bible Cross References
the bars of the pit
Job 18:13
Let the soles of his feet be devoured, and death shall consume his beauty.
Job 18:14
And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.
Job 33:18-28
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He spares also his soul from death, and does not allow him to fall in war.
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And again, He chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones are pained.
20
And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat;
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until his flesh shall be consumed, and he shall show his bones bare.
22
His soul also draws near to death, and his life is in Hades.
23
Though there should be a thousand messengers of death, not one of them shall wound him: if he should purpose in his heart to turn to the Lord, and declare to man his fault, and show his folly;
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He will support him, that he should not perish, and will restore his body as [fresh] plaster upon a wall; and He will fill his bones with marrow.
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And He will make his flesh tender as that of a babe, and He will restore him among men in his full strength.
26
And he shall pray to the Lord, and his prayer shall be accepted by Him; he shall enter with a cheerful countenance, with a full expression [of] [praise]: for He will render to men their due.
27
Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? And He has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins.
28
Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.
Psalm 88:4-8
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I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help;
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free among the dead, as the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom You remember no more; and they are rejected from Your hand.
6
They laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, and in the shadow of death.
7
Your wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and You have brought upon me all Your billows. Pause.
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You have removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth.
Psalm 143:7
Hear me speedily, O Lord; my spirit has failed; do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like them that go down to the pit.
Isaiah 38:17
For You have chosen my soul, that it should not perish; and You have cast all [my] sins behind me.
Isaiah 38:18
For they that are in the grave shall not praise You, neither shall the dead bless You, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for Your mercy.
Jonah 2:6
[ 2:7] to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.
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Job 3:17-19
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There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest.
18
And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the voice of the oppressor.
19
The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord.
Ezekiel 37:11
And the Lord spoke to me, saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: and they say, Our bones have become dry, our hope has perished, we are quite spent.
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,