Jeremiah 38:5-7

New Catholic Bible

⁵ King Zedekiah replied, “He is in your power.” For the king was powerless to oppose them. ⁶ Therefore, they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting him down with ropes. There was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.

⁷ However, it so happened that an Ethiopian, Ebed-melech,^[a] who was a eunuch in the king’s palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. Therefore, he decided to report this to the king,