Jeremiah 37:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Thus Jeremiah was put in the cistern house, in the cells, and remained there many days.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

When Jeremiah had come into the cells in the dungeon and had remained there many days,

American Standard Version (1901)

When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

Common English Bible

So Jeremiah was put in a cistern, which was like a dungeon, where he remained a long time.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then Zedekiah the king, sending, took him out and questioned him secretly in his house, and he said: "Do you think that there is any word from the Lord?" And Jeremiah said: "There is." And he said: "You will be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Then Sedecias the king, sending, took him, and asked him secretly in his house, and said: Is there, thinkest thou, any word from the Lord? And Jeremias said: There is. And he said: Thou shalt be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 37:16 Cross References

Genesis 40:15

For in fact I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon.”

Jeremiah 38:6

So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

Lamentations 3:53

they flung me alive into a pit and hurled stones on me;

Lamentations 3:55

I called on your name, O Lord, from the depths of the pit;