God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
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 mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. Of David. Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.
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