Then I beat them small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.

Can the rush grow up without mire? Can a reed grow without water?

He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

His underparts are [like] sharp potsherds. He spreads out [as] a threshing-wagon upon the mire.

Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

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

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath. I will give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire, and Jeremiah sank in th

But the miry places of it, and the marshes of it, shall not be healed. They shall be given up to salt.

And whereas thou saw the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom. But there shall be of the strength of the iron in it, inasmuch as thou saw the iron mixed with miry clay.

And whereas thou saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men, but they shall not cling one to another, even as iron does not mix with clay.

Then my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is LORD thy God? My eyes shall see [my desire] upon her. Now she shall be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

And Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

And they shall be as mighty men, treading down [their enemies] in the mire of the streets in the battle. And they shall fight, because LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

But that of the TRUE proverb has happened to them, The dog returning to his own vomit, and the sow that washed to wallowing in mire.