Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

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

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

Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

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

I called upon your name, O LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.

Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

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

For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.

But 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 the LORD hid them.

So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took there old clothes and old rags, and let them down by ropes into the cistern to Jeremiah.

And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old clothes and rags under your armpits under the ropes. And Jeremiah did so.

And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Your friends have set upon you, and have prevailed against you: your feet have sunk in the mire, and they have turned away from you.

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 established my steps.

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

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Let not the floodwater overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

My enemies chased me hard, like a bird, without cause.

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

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit in which is no water.