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 rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

But Herod the tetrarch, being rebuked by him concerning Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,

he also added this to all [his other] [sins], and locked up John in the prison.

So Jeremiah came into the dungeon, and into the cells, and he remained there many days.

KOPH. I called upon Your name, O Lord, out of the lowest dungeon.

who, having received such a command, cast them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

in everything being oppressed, yet not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;

persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;

For you have need of endurance, so that having done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch and Jeremiah, but they were hidden.

So Ebed-Melech took the men and went into the underground [part of the] king's house, and took from there old rags and old ropes, and threw them down to Jeremiah into the dungeon.

And he said, Put these under the ropes. And Jeremiah did so.

And behold, all the women that are left in the house of the king of Judah were brought forth to the princes of the king of Babylon. And they said, The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and will prevail against you; and they shall cause your foot to slide and fail, they have turned back from you.

And they took him and cast him into the pit; and the pit was empty, it had not water.

And He brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.

I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I have come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me.

Save me from the mire, that I stick not [in it;] let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.

Let not the floodwater drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.

TSADE. The fowlers chased me as a sparrow; all my enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause,

Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off.

And you, by the blood of your covenant, have sent forth your prisoners out of the waterless pit.