Save me, God, for the water has risen to my neck.I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing; I have come into deep waters, and a flood sweeps over me.
So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the guard’s courtyard, lowering Jeremiah with ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.