He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to Jehovah, who am but dust and ashes.
And he took a broken piece of pottery to scrape himself with. And he sat down among the ashes.
Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
yet You will plunge me into the ditch and my own clothes shall despise me.
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
And they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the prison. And they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And there was no water in the pit, only mud. So Jeremiah sank into the mud.