15 Bible Verses about Marshes

Yet its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be left for salt.

The fords have been seized,
the marshes set on fire,
and the soldiers are terrified.

He lies under the lotus plants,
hiding in the protection of marshy reeds.

His undersides are jagged potsherds,
spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.

Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Do reeds flourish without water?

Tyre has built herself a fortress;
she has heaped up silver like dust
and gold like the dirt of the streets.

they will be like warriors in battle
trampling down the mud of the streets.
They will fight because the Lord is with them,
and they will put horsemen to shame.

I pulverize them like dust of the earth;
I crush them and trample them like mud in the streets.

I pulverize them like dust before the wind;
I trample them like mud in the streets.

He throws me into the mud,
and I have become like dust and ashes.

I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing;
I have come into deep waters,
and a flood sweeps over me.

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the guard’s courtyard, lowering Jeremiah with ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

‘All the women who remain in the palace of Judah’s king will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon and will say:

Your trusted friends misled you
and overcame you.
Your feet sank into the mire,
and they deserted you.

Rescue me from the miry mud; don’t let me sink.
Let me be rescued from those who hate me
and from the deep waters.

He brought me up from a desolate pit,
out of the muddy clay,
and set my feet on a rock,
making my steps secure.