Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

General references

Bible References

I sink

Psalm 40:2
He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.
Jeremiah 38:6
Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.

Deep waters

Psalm 88:6
You have put me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.
Ezekiel 27:26
“Your rowers have brought you
Into great waters;
The east wind has broken you
In the heart of the seas.

General references

Jonah 2:5
Water encompassed me to the point of death.
The great deep engulfed me,
Weeds were wrapped around my head.