¹⁸ Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “What did I do wrong to you, or to your servants, or to this people, that you have put me in prison?^{[a] 19} And where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying,^[b] ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land’? ²⁰ Now then, my lord the king, please let my plea fall before you.^[c] You must not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, so that I will not die there.”