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

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

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

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 

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 

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.

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.

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 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 

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

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 

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

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

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up ¹  all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

Joshua tore his clothes; ¹  he and the leaders ²  of Israel lay face down on the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening ³  and threw dirt on their heads. ⁴ 

Then fire from the Lord fell from the sky. ¹  It consumed the offering, the wood, the stones, and the dirt, and licked up the water in the trench.

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