I called on your name, Lord, from the depths of the pit.
You have put me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
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.