When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
Lamentations 3:53 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, And cast a stone upon me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They [thought they had] destroyed my life in the dungeon (pit) and cast a stone [over it] above me. [Jer. 38.] American Standard Version (1901) They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me. Common English Bible They caught me alive in a pit and threw stones at me; Catholic Public Domain Version SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me. |
When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
And now hear, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die in the place where he is because of the famine: for there is no more bread in the city.
And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.
and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.
So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, the guard being with them.