So they took Jeremiah (A)and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in (B)the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down (C)by ropes. (D)And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and (E)Jeremiah sank in the mud.

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21 So King Zedekiah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to (A)the court of the guard. And a loaf of bread was given him daily from the bakers' street, (B)until all the bread of the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in (C)the court of the guard.

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11 As for you also, because of (A)the blood of my covenant with you,
    (B)I will set your prisoners free from (C)the waterless pit.

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16 (A)When Jeremiah had come to the dungeon cells and remained there many days,

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24 Having received this order, he put them into the inner (A)prison and fastened their feet in (B)the stocks.

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22 Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and were saying,

(A)“‘Your trusted friends have deceived you
    and prevailed against you;
now that your feet are sunk in the mud,
    they turn away from you.’

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14 Deliver me
    from sinking in (A)the mire;
(B)let me be delivered from my enemies
    and from (C)the deep waters.
15 Let not the flood sweep over me,
    or the deep swallow me up,
    or (D)the pit close (E)its mouth over me.

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I sink in deep (A)mire,
    where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
    and the flood (B)sweeps over me.

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He drew me up from (A)the pit of destruction,
    out of (B)the miry bog,
and (C)set my feet upon a rock,
    (D)making my steps secure.

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24 And they took him and (A)threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.

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36 For (A)you have need of endurance, so that (B)when you have done the will of God you may (C)receive what is promised.

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We are (A)afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but (B)not forsaken; (C)struck down, but not destroyed;

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19 But (A)Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done, 20 added this to them all, that (B)he locked up John in prison.

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52 (A)“I have been hunted (B)like a bird
    by those who were my enemies (C)without cause;
53 (D)they flung me alive into the pit
    (E)and cast stones on me;
54 (F)water closed over my head;
    I said, (G)‘I am lost.’

55 (H)“I called on your name, O Lord,
    from the depths of the pit;

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11 So (A)Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the house of the king, to a wardrobe in the storehouse, and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes, which he let down to Jeremiah in the cistern (B)by ropes. 12 Then (C)Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Put the rags and clothes between your armpits and (D)the ropes.” Jeremiah did so.

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26 And the king commanded Jerahmeel the (A)king's son and Seraiah the son of Azriel and (B)Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize (C)Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but the Lord hid them.

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So they (A)reward me evil for good,
    and hatred for my love.

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