Jeremiah 18:20
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them. Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
Jeremiah pleads with God for his persecutors even while they repay his good with evil and seek to take his life. He asks God to remember that he had stood before Him to speak good on their behalf and to turn away divine wrath from them. His words are a plain and solemn denunciation of sin whose meaning is very clear. They are spoken in heartfelt sorrow over transgression and as a most touching appeal to return to God. That appeal meets a painful and strange refusal, with the mass of the people giving it almost no response.
The digging of a pit for the soul shows that the soul can be cut off. It shows that the soul can die. It shows that the soul can go into the grave, proving that it is not naturally immortal.