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.” ²¹ So King Zedekiah commanded, and they handed Jeremiah over in the courtyard of the guard, and they gave to him a round loaf of bread from the street of the bakers every day^[d] until the finishing of all the bread from the city. And Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard.