But the wicked are like a surging sea that is unable to be quiet; its waves toss up mud and sand.

I grind them as fine windblown dust; ¹  I beat them underfoot ²  like clay ³  in the streets.

For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground. ¹ 

And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you ¹  – not the washing off of physical dirt ²  but the pledge ³  of a good conscience to God – through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

My body ¹  is clothed ²  with worms ³  and dirty scabs; ⁴  my skin is broken ⁵  and festering.

He raises the poor from the dirt, and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile, ¹ 

On that day ¹  a Benjaminite ran from the battle lines and came to Shiloh. His clothes were torn and dirt was on his head.

The handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for Ehud ¹  did not pull the sword out of his belly. ² 

When David reached the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Arkite met him with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.

Then ¹  he bent over again and wrote on the ground.

So David and his men went on their way. But Shimei kept going along the side of the hill opposite him, yelling curses as he threw stones and dirt at them. ¹ 

I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay ¹  in the streets.

On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.

Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!

On the third day a man arrived from the camp of Saul with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. ¹  When he approached David, the man ²  threw himself to the ground. ³ 

that ¹  you must search out ²  my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, ¹  and buried ²  my horn ³  in the dust;

For she leaves ¹  her eggs on the ground, and lets them be warmed on the soil.

I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, ¹  their sin by inflicting them with bruises. ² 

You have brought to an end his splendor, ¹  and have knocked ²  his throne to the ground.