15 Bible Verses about Marshes

the swamps thereof and the pools thereof, shall not be healed to salt, have they been given up.

and The fords, have been seized, and The reeds, have they burned with fire; and The men of war, are dismayed!

Under the lotus-trees, he lieth down, in a covert of reed and swamp;

His underparts, are points of potsherd, a pointed threshing roller spreadeth out upon the slime:

Can the paper-reed grow up, without a marsh? Or the rush grow up, without water?

Therefore did Tyre build a stronghold for herself, - and did heap up silver like dust, yea gold, like the mire of the lanes.

So shall they become like mighty ones, trampling on the mire of lanes, in battle, and they will fight because, Yahweh, is with them, - and will abash the riders of horses.

Then did I beat them in pieces, like the dust of the earth, - like the clay of the lanes, did I crush them, stamp them down.

Then did I beat them in pieces, like dust on the face of the wind. Like the mire in the lanes, did I scatter them.

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

I have sunk in deep swamp, Where there is no place to stand, I have come into abysses of waters, Where a flood hath overflowed me;

Then took they Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah son of the king, which was in the guard-court, and they let Jeremiah down with ropes, - now, in the dungeon, was no water only mire, so Jeremiah sank in the mire.

behold, then, all the women that are left in the house of the king of Judah, brought forth unto the princes of the king of Babylon, - and, these very women, saying, The men thou wast wont to salute, have goaded thee on and prevailed upon thee, - Thy foot having sunk in the mire, they have turned away back.

Rescue me out of the mire, lest I sink, Let me be rescued, From my haters, and, From abysses of waters:

So he brought me up, Out of the destroying pit, Out of the swampy mire, - And set, upon a cliff, my feet, Making firm my steps: