1. 22 synonyms for Boggy: marshy, muddy, waterlogged, spongy, swampy, soft, yielding, fenny, oozy, miry, quaggy

2. Wicked Jucal was also among those who threw Jeremiah into a miry cistern, from which the prophet was later rescued.

3. (1 Kings 18:4, 13; 19:10) The prophet Jeremiah was put into stocks and later thrown into a miry cistern.

4. Ebed-melech’s godly qualities were put to the test when evil princes falsely accused Jeremiah of sedition and threw him into a miry cistern, leaving him to die.

5. In one of Burns's own poems, The Cotter's Saturday Night, we get some idea of the simple home life these kindly God- fearing peasants led-- "November chill Blaws loud wi' angry sugh;* The short'ning winter-day is near a close; The miry bests retreating frae the pleugh; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose; The toil-worn Cotter Frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an