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So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.(A)

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

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

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16 Thus Jeremiah was put in the cistern house, in the cells, and remained there many days.(A)

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24 Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.(A)

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22 a vision of all the women remaining in the house of the king of Judah being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and saying,

‘Your trusted friends have seduced you
    and have overcome you.
Now that your feet are stuck in the mud,
    they desert you.’(A)

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14 rescue me
    from sinking in the mire;
let me be delivered from my enemies
    and from the deep waters.(A)
15 Do not let the flood sweep over me
    or the deep swallow me up
    or the Pit close its mouth over me.(B)

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

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He drew me up from the desolate pit,[a]
    out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
    making my steps secure.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 40.2 Cn: Heb pit of tumult

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

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

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We are afflicted in every way but not crushed, perplexed but not driven to despair, persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed,

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19 But Herod the ruler, who had been rebuked by him because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil things that Herod had done,(A) 20 added to them all by shutting up John in prison.

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52 Those who were my enemies without cause
    have hunted me like a bird;(A)
53 they flung me alive into a pit
    and hurled stones on me;(B)
54 water closed over my head;
    I said, “I am lost.”(C)

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

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11 So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the house of the king, to a wardrobe of[a] the storehouse, and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes, which he let down to Jeremiah in the cistern by ropes. 12 Then Ebed-melech the Cushite said to Jeremiah, “Just put the rags and clothes between your armpits and the ropes.” Jeremiah did so.

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Footnotes

  1. 38.11 Cn: Heb to under

26 And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son and Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest the secretary Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. But the Lord hid them.(A)

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

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