15 Bible Verses about Marshes

But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

The fords also have been seized,
And they have burned the marshes with fire,
And the men of war are terrified.

“Under the lotus plants he lies down,
In the covert of the reeds and the marsh.

“His underparts are like sharp potsherds;
He spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.

“Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?
Can the rushes grow without water?

For Tyre built herself a fortress
And piled up silver like dust,
And gold like the mire of the streets.

“They will be as mighty men,
Treading down the enemy in the mire of the streets in battle;
And they will fight, for the Lord will be with them;
And the riders on horses will be put to shame.

“Then I pulverized them as the dust of the earth;
I crushed and stamped them as the mire of the streets.

Then I beat them fine as the dust before the wind;
I emptied them out as the mire of the streets.

“He has cast me into the mire,
And I have become like dust and ashes.

I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.

Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.

‘Then behold, all of the women who have been left in the palace of the king of Judah are going to be brought out to the officers of the king of Babylon; and those women will say,
“Your close friends
Have misled and overpowered you;
While your feet were sunk in the mire,
They turned back.”

Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink;
May I be delivered from my foes and from the deep waters.

He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.