For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.

Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.