So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily fro
All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon,
Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me
So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.
They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.
Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.
You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel,
We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,
Then Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the king’s palace, to a place below the storehouse. From there he too