15 Bible Verses about Marshes
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But the miry places of it, and its marshes, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.
His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.
Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's officers, and those women shall say, 'Your familiar friends have set you on, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away back.'
Deliver me out of the mire, and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
From Thematic Bible
Birds » Inhabit » Marshes
"I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the LORD of hosts.