²⁰ But now, please listen, my lord the king; please let my ^(A)plea ^[a]come before you and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, so that I will not die there.” ²¹ Then King Zedekiah gave a command, and they placed Jeremiah in custody in the ^(B)courtyard of the guardhouse, and gave him a loaf of ^(C)bread daily from the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was ^(D)gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guardhouse.