God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Abraham answered, “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes.
therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
yet thou wilt plunge me into a pit, 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 cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mire, and Jeremiah sank in the mire.