At that time the army of the king of Babylonia was attacking Jerusalem, and I was locked up in the courtyard of the royal palace.

Then, just as the LORD had said, Hanamel came to me there in the courtyard and asked me to buy the field. So I knew that the LORD had really spoken to me.

and they pulled me up out of the well. After that I was kept in the courtyard.

And I was kept in the palace courtyard until the day Jerusalem was captured.

The brook will supply you with water to drink, and I have commanded ravens to bring you food there."

He drank water from the brook, and ravens brought him bread and meat every morning and every evening.

when famine comes, he will keep you alive, and in war protect you from death.

The LORD watches over those who obey him, those who trust in his constant love.

He saves them from death; he keeps them alive in times of famine.

Honor the LORD, all his people; those who obey him have all they need.

Even lions go hungry for lack of food, but those who obey the LORD lack nothing good.

Trust in the LORD and do good; live in the land and be safe.

They will not suffer when times are bad; they will have enough in time of famine.

When you please the LORD, you can make your enemies into friends.

The LORD controls the mind of a king as easily as he directs the course of a stream.

Then you will be safe; you will be as secure as if in a strong fortress. You will have food to eat and water to drink.

Instead, be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom of God and with what he requires of you, and he will provide you with all these other things.

"Your Majesty, what these men have done is wrong. They have put Jeremiah in the well, where he is sure to die of starvation, since there is no more food in the city."

On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,

They will attack every town in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.

Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.

Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.

On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,

My eyes are worn out with weeping; my soul is in anguish. I am exhausted with grief at the destruction of my people. Children and babies are fainting in the streets of the city.

Hungry and thirsty, they cry to their mothers; They fall in the streets as though they were wounded, And slowly die in their mothers' arms.

All through the night get up again and again to cry out to the Lord; Pour out your heart and beg him for mercy on your children--- Children starving to death on every street corner!

Look, O LORD! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself !

They let their babies die of hunger and thirst; children are begging for food that no one will give them.

People who once ate the finest foods die starving in the streets; those raised in luxury are pawing through garbage for food.

Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later, who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.

The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.

Hunger has made us burn with fever until our skin is as hot as an oven.

and they pulled me up out of the well. After that I was kept in the courtyard.

And I was kept in the palace courtyard until the day Jerusalem was captured.

had me brought from the palace courtyard. They put me under the care of Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, who was to see that I got home safely. And so I stayed there among the people.

While I was still imprisoned in the palace courtyard, the LORD told me

So Peter was kept in jail, but the people of the church were praying earnestly to God for him.

After two years had passed, Porcius Festus succeeded Felix as governor. Felix wanted to gain favor with the Jews so he left Paul in prison.

When we arrived in Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself with a soldier guarding him.

For two years Paul lived in a place he rented for himself, and there he welcomed all who came to see him.

I urge you, then---I who am a prisoner because I serve the Lord: live a life that measures up to the standard God set when he called you.

For the sake of this gospel I am an ambassador, though now I am in prison. Pray that I may be bold in speaking about the gospel as I should.

Do not be ashamed, then, of witnessing for our Lord; neither be ashamed of me, a prisoner for Christ's sake. Instead, take your part in suffering for the Good News, as God gives you the strength for it.

Because I preach the Good News, I suffer and I am even chained like a criminal. But the word of God is not in chains,