I am compared to dirt: and am likened to embers and ashes.
Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.
Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth; and my garments shall abhor me.
And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.
Then they took Jeremias and cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the son of Amelech, which was in the entry of the prison: and they let down Jeremias by ropes into the dungeon, wherein there was no water but mire. And Jeremias sunk into the mire.
And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.