He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
Avraham answered, *See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.*
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Then took they Yirmeyahu, and cast him into the dungeon of Malkiyah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Yirmeyahu with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Yirmeyahu sank in the mire.