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 also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and gave sureness to my steps.
Jeremiah 38:6
And they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the prison. And they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And there was no water in the pit, only mud. So Jeremiah sank into the mud.

Deep waters

Psalm 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Ezekiel 27:26
Your rowers have made you come into great waters; the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.

General references

Jonah 2:5
Waters encompassed me, even to the soul; the depth closed around me; the seaweed was bound to my head.