yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes would abhor me.

i1 [To the chief Musician. Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.] i0 par Deliver me, O God; for the waters have come in upon my soul!

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I have come into deep waters, where the floods have overflowed me.

And they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit of Malchijah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And there was no water in the pit, only mud. So Jeremiah sank into the mud.

And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself; and he sat down in the middle of the ashes.

Therefore I despise myself, and have repented in dust and ashes.

Then Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord: