'Mud' in the Bible
"Its underparts [are] shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud [like] a threshing sledge.
And I ground them like dust {in the wind}, I emptied them out like mud of [the] streets.
I sink in [the] mud of the deep, and there is no foothold. I have come to watery depths, and [the] torrent floods over me.
Deliver me from [the] mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from [those who] hate me and from [the] watery depths.
But the wicked [are] like the churning sea, that is not able to keep quiet, and its waters toss up mire and mud.
So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit [of] Malchiah, the son of the king, which [was] in the courtyard of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down by ropes. Now in the pit there was no water, {but only} mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
Now look, all the women who remain in the house of the king of Judah [are] being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon. And look, [they are] saying, '{Your trusted friends} have misled you, and they have prevailed against you. Your feet are stuck in the mud, [so] they turned backward.'
And my flock must graze the [pasture] treaded upon by your feet, and must drink the mud puddle [stirred up] by your feet."
Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, "Where [is] Yahweh your God?" My eyes will look upon her; now she will become a trampling place, like mud in the streets.
Draw water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go to the mud [pit]! Trample the clay! Grasp the brick mold!
Tyre has built a fortification for itself, and it heaped up silver like dust, and gold like [the] mud of [the] streets.
And they will be like warriors, trampling in the mud of [the] streets in the battle. They will fight, because Yahweh [is] with them, and they will put to shame [the] riders on horses.
The [statement] of the true proverb has happened to them, "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, [after] washing herself, [returns] to wallowing in the mud."