And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.