For King Zedekiah[had] shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, saying, Thus says the Lord, Behold, I [will] give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

So Hanamel the son of Shallom my father's brother came to me into the court of the prison, and said, Buy my field that is in the land of Benjamin, in Anathoth: for you [have] a right to buy it, and you are the elder. So I knew that it was the word of the Lord.

And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, when he was yet bound in the court of the prison, saying,

And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am in prison; I cannot enter into the house of the Lord.

Then the king commanded, and they cast him into the prison, and gave him a loaf a day out of the place where they bake, until the bread failed out of the city. So Jeremiah continued in the court of the prison.

And they cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the king's son, which was in the court of the prison; and they let him down into the pit: and there was no water in the pit, but mire. And he was in the mire.

[This translation omits this verse.]

And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in the court of the prison, saying,

Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

of Palal the son of Uzai, opposite the corner, and [where is] also the tower that projects from the king's house, even the upper one of the prison house. And after him [repaired] Pedaiah the son of Parosh.