11 Bible Verses about Sinking

Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink;
May I be delivered from my foes and from the deep waters.

Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

“You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them;
They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become exhausted.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea.

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble.

But seeing the wind, he became frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, “Lord, save me!”

so they signaled to their partners in the other boat for them to come and help them. And they came and filled both of the boats, so that they began to sink.

“For You had cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the current engulfed me.
All Your breakers and billows passed over me.

The cords of death encompassed me,
And the torrents of ungodliness terrified me.