<p class="poetry">We will swallow them alive<n id="1" /> like Sheol,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">those full of vigor<n id="3" /> like those going down to the Pit.p>

<p class="poetry">he digs a pit<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and then falls into the hole he has made.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">But you were brought down<n id="1" /> to Sheol,p> <p class="poetry">to the remote slopes of the pit.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, you pulled me<n id="1" /> up from Sheol;p> <p class="poetry">you rescued me from among those descending into the grave.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They treat me like<n id="1" /> those who descend into the grave.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I am like a helpless man,<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The one who is tormented<n id="1" /> by the murder<n id="2" /> of another will flee to the pit;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">let no one support him.p>

<p class="poetry">They will be imprisoned in a pit,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">locked up in a prison,p> <p class="poetry">and after staying there for a long time,<n id="2" /> they will be punished.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed<n id="1" /> Sheol does not give you thanks;p> <p class="poetry">death does not<n id="2" /> praise you.p> <p class="poetry">Those who descend into the pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.p>

then I will bring you down to bygone people,<n id="1" /> to be with those who descend to the pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among<n id="2" /> the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand<n id="3" /> in the land of the living.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;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,

He said, &#8220;Capture them alive!&#8221; So they captured them alive and then executed all forty-two of them in the cistern at Beth Eked. He left no survivors.p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">By David.p> <p class="poetry">To you, O <sc>Lordsc>, I cry out!p> <p class="poetry">My protector,<n id="2" /> do not ignore me!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">If you do not respond to me,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">I will join<n id="5" /> those who are descending into the grave.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">Answer me quickly, <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">My strength is fading.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Do not reject me,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">or I will join<n id="3" /> those descending into the grave.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">But you have been thrown out of your gravep> <p class="poetry">like a shoot that is thrown away.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You lie among<n id="2" /> the slain,p> <p class="poetry">among those who have been slashed by the sword,p> <p class="poetry">among those headed for<n id="3" /> the stones of the pit,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">as if you were a mangled corpse.<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Listen to me, you who pursue godliness,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">who seek the <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">Look at the rock from which you were chiseled,p> <p class="poetry">at the quarry<n id="2" /> from which you were dug!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">As a well continually pours out fresh waterp> <p class="poetry">so it continually pours out wicked deeds.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Sounds of violence and destruction echo throughout it.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">All I see are sick and wounded people.&#8217;<n id="3" />p>

&#8220;Son of man, wail<n id="1" /> over the horde of Egypt. Bring it down;<n id="2" /> bring<n id="3" /> her<n id="4" /> and the daughters of powerful nations down to the lower parts of the earth, along with those who descend to the pit.

Their<n id="1" /> graves are located in the remote slopes of the pit.<n id="2" /> Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Edom is there with her kings and all her princes. Despite their might they are laid with those killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised and those who descend to the pit.p>

Finally Saul<n id="1" /> himself went to Ramah. When he arrived at the large cistern that is in Secu, he asked, &#8220;Where are Samuel and David?&#8221; They said, &#8220;At Naioth in Ramah.&#8221;p>