15 Bible Verses about Marshes

But the water in the swamps and marshes will not become fresh. It will remain salty.

The river crossings have been taken. The enemy has burned its marshes, and its soldiers are terrified.

He lies under the lotus plants, hidden among the reeds in the marsh.

Its underside is like sharp pieces of broken pottery. It stretches out like a threshing sledge on the mud.

Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?

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

They will be as mighty men treading down their enemies in the mire of the streets. They will fight in the battle! Because Jehovah is with them! The riders on horses will be confounded (confused) (bewildered).

They were crushed as small as the dust of the earth. I stamped them down under my feet like the waste of the streets.

I beat them into powder as fine as the dust blown by the wind. I threw them out as though they were dirt on the streets.

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

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

So they took me and let me down by ropes into Prince Malchiah's well, which was in the palace courtyard. There was no water in the well, only mud, and I sank down in it.

In it I saw all the women left in Judah's royal palace being led out to the king of Babylonia's officers. Listen to what they were saying as they went. The king's best friends misled him, they overruled him. And now that his feet have sunk in the mud, his friends have left him.

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 out of the pit of destruction, out of the mud and clay. He set my feet upon a rock and made me stand erect.