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.
I sink
Deep waters
General references
Bible References
I sink
Psalm 40:2
He brought me up out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and establishing my path.
He brought me up out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and establishing my path.
Jeremiah 38:6
So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down [into the cistern] with ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
Deep waters
Psalm 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.
You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.
Ezekiel 27:26
“Your rowers have brought you
Into great and deep waters;
The east wind has broken and shipwrecked you
In the heart of the seas.
“Your rowers have brought you
Into great and deep waters;
The east wind has broken and shipwrecked you
In the heart of the seas.
General references
Jonah 2:5
“The waters surrounded me, to the point of death.
The great deep engulfed me,
Seaweed was wrapped around my head.
“The waters surrounded me, to the point of death.
The great deep engulfed me,
Seaweed was wrapped around my head.