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
And he will bring me up from the pit of destruction, from the clay of mire, and he will set my feet upon a rock, preparing my goings.
Jeremiah 38:6
And they will take Jeremiah and send him to the pit of Malchiah son of the king which was in the enclosure of the prison: and they will cast Jeremiah with cords, and in the pit no water but mud: and Jeremiah will sink in the mud.

Deep waters

Psalm 88:6
Thou didst set me in the pit beneath, in darknesses, in the shades.
Ezekiel 27:26
Thy rower brought thee into many waters: the wind of the east broke thee in the heart of the seas.

General references

Jonah 2:5
The waters encompassed me even to the soul: the deep will surround me, the sedge was bound to my head.