He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent In dust and ashes.
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
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.
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.