He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself and sat among the ashes.
therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”
yet you will plunge me into filth, and my own clothes will abhor me.
rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.