“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”
So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily fro
Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.
For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservant
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go o
Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.