15 Bible Verses about Marshes

But its marshes and its swamps will not be cured, for they were given for salt.

And the fords have been seized, and the reed marshes have been burned with fire, and {the soldiers} are horrified.

Under [the] lotus tree it lies, in [the] hiding place of [the] reeds and [in the] marsh.

"Its underparts [are] shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud [like] a threshing sledge.

Can papyrus grow tall where [there is] not a marsh? Will reeds flourish without water?

Tyre has built a fortification for itself, and it heaped up silver like dust, and gold like [the] mud of [the] streets.

And they will be like warriors, trampling in the mud of [the] streets in the battle. They will fight, because Yahweh [is] with them, and they will put to shame [the] riders on horses.

I beat them fine, like the dust of the earth; like the mire of the streets, I crushed them, I stamped them down.

And I ground them like dust {in the wind}, I emptied them out like mud of [the] streets.

He has cast me into the dirt, and I have become like dust and ashes.

I sink in [the] mud of the deep, and there is no foothold. I have come to watery depths, and [the] torrent floods over me.

So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit [of] Malchiah, the son of the king, which [was] in the courtyard of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down by ropes. Now in the pit there was no water, {but only} mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

Now look, all the women who remain in the house of the king of Judah [are] being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon. And look, [they are] saying, '{Your trusted friends} have misled you, and they have prevailed against you. Your feet are stuck in the mud, [so] they turned backward.'

Deliver me from [the] mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from [those who] hate me and from [the] watery depths.

And [so] he brought me up from [the] roaring pit, from the miry clay. And he put my feet upon a rock; he made my steps steady.