And Zedekiah the king commanded that they should put Jeremiah into the court of the guard, and that they should give him a piece of bread out of the bakers' street daily, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus, Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Thus they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

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

also added this, above all, that he shut John up in prison.

When Jeremiah had entered into the dungeon and the cell, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,

I called on Your name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest pit.

Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

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

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

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But Jehovah hid them.

So Ebed-melech took the men by his hand and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took worn out clothes and worn out rags from there, and let them down by ropes into the pit to Jeremiah.

And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Now put the worn out clothes and rags under your armpits, under the ropes. And Jeremiah did so.

Behold, all the women who are left in the house of the king of Judah shall be brought out to the rulers of the king of Babylon, and they shall say, Your friends have enticed you, and have prevailed against you. Your feet have sunk in the mire, and they have turned away.

And they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and secured my steps.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I have come into deep waters, where the floods have overflowed me.

Rescue me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be rescued from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Do not let the flood of waters overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

My enemies have hunted me down like a bird, without cause.

Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off.

As for you, by the blood of your covenant I have set free your prisoners from the pit, where there is no water.