He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:
And he took himself a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat down among the ashes.
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with ropes. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sank in the mire.