Job 30:19
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19 He has cast me into the mire,
and I have become like dust and ashes.(A)
Job 42:6
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6 therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes.”(A)
Job 9:31
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31 yet you will plunge me into filth,
and my own clothes will abhor me.
Genesis 18:27
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27 Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but dust and ashes.(A)
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Jeremiah 38:6
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6 So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.(A)
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Psalm 69:14
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14 rescue me
from sinking in the mire;
let me be delivered from my enemies
and from the deep waters.(A)
Psalm 69:1-2
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Psalm 69
Prayer for Deliverance from Persecution
To the leader: according to Lilies. Of David.
1 Save me, O God,
for the waters have come up to my neck.(A)
2 I sink in deep mire,
where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
and the flood sweeps over me.(B)
Job 2:8
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8 Job[a] took a potsherd with which to scrape himself and sat among the ashes.(A)
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