Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I stamped them like the mire of the streets and spread them out.

Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the reed-grass grow without water?

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

Points of potsherds are under him; he spreads sharp pointed marks on the mire.

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.

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.

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

And, behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought out to the king of Babylon's rulers, and they shall say, Your friends have urged you on, and have prevailed against you. Your feet have sunk in the mire, and they have turned away.

And as to that which you saw: the feet and toes, part of potters' clay and part of iron; the kingdom shall be divided. But there shall be in it the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.

And as you saw iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mix themselves with the seed of men. But they shall not cling to one another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

But the word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog turning to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to wallowing in the mire.