15 Bible Verses about Marshes

But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.

the fords have been seized, the marshes are burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic.

Under the lotus plants he lies, in the shelter of the reeds and in the marsh.

His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.

"Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?

Tyre has built herself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets.

They shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the LORD is with them, and they shall put to shame the riders on horses.

I beat them fine as the dust of the earth; I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.

I beat them fine as dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets.

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

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.

So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and were saying, "'Your trusted friends have deceived you and prevailed against you; now that your feet are sunk in the mud, they turn away from you.'

Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.

He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.