Thou shalt say to them: I presented my supplication before the king that he would not command me to be carried back into the house of Jonathan, to die there.
Then king Sedecias commanded that Jeremias should be committed into the entry of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread, beside broth, till all the bread in the city were spent. And Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison.
And they said to Jeremias the prophet: Let our supplication fall before thee, and pray thou for us to the Lord thy God for all this remnant: for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us.
So all the princes came to Jeremias and asked him: and he spoke to them according to all the words that the king had commanded him. And they left him: for nothing had been heard.