“I called on thy name, O Lord, from the depths of the pit;
Thou hast put me in the depths of the Pit, in the regions dark and deep.
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 mire, and Jeremiah sank in the mire.