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 also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.
Jeremiah 38:6
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with ropes. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sank in the mire.
Deep waters
Psalm 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deep.
Ezekiel 27:26
Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the midst of the seas.
General references
Jonah 2:5
The waters surrounded me, even to the soul: the deep closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.