When Jeremiah had come to the dungeon cells and remained there many days,
So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
“I called on your name, O Lord, from the depths of the pit;
they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me;
For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”