¹⁶ For Jeremiah had come into the ^[a](A)pit, that is, the vaulted cell; and Jeremiah stayed there many days.

⁶ Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the ^[a](A)cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water but only ^(B)mire, and Jeremiah sank into the mire.

⁹ “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the cistern; and he ^[a]will die right where he is because of the famine, for there is ^(A)no more bread in the city.”