15 Bible Verses about Marshes

But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain salty.

They will report that the fords have been captured, the reed marshes have been burned, the soldiers are terrified.

Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh.

Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.

Can the papyrus plant grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?

Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!

And they will be like warriors trampling the mud of the streets in battle. They will fight, for the Lord will be with them, and will defeat the enemy cavalry.

I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay in the streets.

I grind them as fine windblown dust; I beat them underfoot like clay in the streets.

He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

I sink into the deep mire where there is no solid ground; I am in deep water, and the current overpowers me.

So the officials took Jeremiah and put him in the cistern of Malkijah, one of the royal princes, that was in the courtyard of the guardhouse. There was no water in the cistern, only mud. So when they lowered Jeremiah into the cistern with ropes he sank in the mud.

All the women who are left in the royal palace of Judah will be led out to the officers of the king of Babylon. They will taunt you saying, 'Your trusted friends misled you; they have gotten the best of you. Now that your feet are stuck in the mud, they have turned their backs on you.'

Rescue me from the mud! Don't let me sink! Deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep water!

He lifted me out of the watery pit, out of the slimy mud. He placed my feet on a rock and gave me secure footing.