15 Bible Verses about Marshes

The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.

And the ways across the river have been taken, and the water-holes ... burned with fire, and the men of war are in the grip of fear.

He takes his rest under the trees of the river, and in the pool, under the shade of the water-plants.

Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.

Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?

And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.

Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.

Then they were crushed as small as the dust of the earth, stamped down under my feet like the waste of the streets.

Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.

Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

So they took Jeremiah and put him into the water-hole of Malchiah, the king's son, in the place of the armed watchmen: and they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the hole there was no water, but wet earth: and Jeremiah went down into the wet earth.

See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you.

Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.

He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.