15 Bible Verses about Marshes

Its miry and its marshy places -- they are not healed; to salt they have been given up.

And the passages have been captured, And the reeds they have burnt with fire, And the men of war have been troubled.

Under shades he lieth down, In a secret place of reed and mire.

Under him are sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.

'Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?

And Tyre doth build a bulwark to herself, And doth heap silver as dust, And gold as mire of out-places.

And they have been as heroes, Treading in mire of out-places in battle, And they have fought, for Jehovah is with them, And have put to shame riders of horses.

And I beat them as dust of the earth, As mire of the streets I beat them small -- I spread them out!

And I beat them as dust before wind, As mire of the streets I empty them out.

Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

I have sunk in deep mire, And there is no standing, I have come into the depths of the waters, And a flood hath overflown me.

And they take Jeremiah, and cast him into the pit of Malchiah son of the king, that is in the court of the prison, and they send down Jeremiah with cords; and in the pit there is no water, but mire, and Jeremiah sinketh in the mire.

That, lo, all the women who have been left in the house of the king of Judah are brought forth unto the heads of the king of Babylon, and lo, they are saying: Persuaded thee, and prevailed against thee, Have thine allies, Sunk into mire have thy feet, They have been turned backward.

Deliver me from the mire, and let me not sink, Let me be delivered from those hating me, And from deep places of waters.

And He doth cause me to come up From a pit of desolation -- from mire of mud, And He raiseth up on a rock my feet, He is establishing my steps.