Genesis 37:24

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

The captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail.

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh’s anointed?”

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.

The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.

David said to him, “Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh’s anointed?”

Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem. Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.”

Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.

He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.

The leaves of it were beautiful, and it had much fruit, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shade under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.”

He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.