Thus Jeremiah was put in the cistern house, in the cells, and remained there many days.
So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. Now 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 a pit and hurled stones on me;
For in fact I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon.”