²⁵ But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:^(A) ‘They hated me without reason.’^[a](B)

⁴ Then the officials^(A) said to the king, “This man should be put to death.^(B) He is discouraging^(C) the soldiers who are left in this city, as well as all the people, by the things he is saying to them. This man is not seeking the good of these people but their ruin.”

⁵ “He is in your hands,”^(D) King Zedekiah answered. “The king can do nothing^(E) to oppose you.”

⁶ So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern of Malkijah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard.^(F) They lowered Jeremiah by ropes^(G) into the cistern; it had no water in it,^(H) only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.^(I)

¹⁸ Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “What crime^(A) have I committed against you or your attendants or this people, that you have put me in prison?

¹⁵ They were angry with Jeremiah and had him beaten^(A) and imprisoned^(B) in the house^(C) of Jonathan the secretary, which they had made into a prison.

¹⁶ Jeremiah was put into a vaulted cell in a dungeon, where he remained a long time.

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