¹⁹ Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

²⁷ And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

³¹ Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

⁶ For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

⁸ And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.

¹ <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of David.> Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.

² My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

¹⁴ Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.

⁶ So they took Jeremiah and put him into the water-hole of Malchiah, the king's son, in the place of the armed watchmen: and they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the hole there was no water, but wet earth: and Jeremiah went down into the wet earth.