Jeremiah was put into a vaulted cell in a dungeon, where he remained a long time.
I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon.”
So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern of Malkijah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah by ropes into the cistern; it had no water in it, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;
I called on your name, Lord, from the depths of the pit.