He has cast me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Then Abraham answered and said, “Look, pray, I have decided to speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes.
He took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.
Therefore I despise myself, and repent on dust and ashes.”
then You would plunge me into a pit and my own clothes would detest me.
But as for me, my prayer to You, Adonai, is for a time of favor. O God, in Your great love, answer me with the truth of Your salvation.
So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern-pit of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard, lowering Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the pit there was no water, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.