⁶ So the officials took Jeremiah from his cell and lowered him by ropes into an empty cistern in the prison yard. It belonged to Malkijah, a member of the royal family. There was no water in the cistern, but there was a thick layer of mud at the bottom, and Jeremiah sank down into it.

²¹ So King Zedekiah commanded that Jeremiah not be returned to the dungeon. Instead, he was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace. The king also commanded that Jeremiah be given a loaf of fresh bread every day as long as there was any left in the city. So Jeremiah was put in the palace prison.

¹⁶ Jeremiah was put into a dungeon cell, where he remained for many days.

²⁴ So the jailer put them into the inner dungeon and clamped their feet in the stocks.

²² All the women left in your palace will be brought out and given to the officers of the Babylonian army. Then the women will taunt you, saying,

²⁴ Then they grabbed him and threw him into the cistern. Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.