Jeremiah 38:9

Tree of Life Version

“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they cast into the pit. He is likely to die right where he is from hunger, for there is no more bread in the city.”

Cross References

Job 31:34

because I feared a great multitude, and the contempt of clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside.

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone will eat his companion’s flesh during the siege and distress, which their enemies and those who seek their life will inflict on them.

Jeremiah 37:21

Then Zedekiah the king gave a command, and they committed Jeremiah into the courtyard of the guard. They gave him a loaf of bread from the bakers’ street daily, until all the bread in the city was spent. So Jeremiah stayed in the guard’s courtyard.

Jeremiah 38:10

Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying: “Take thirty men from here with you, and bring the prophet Jeremiah up out of the cistern, before he dies.”

Jeremiah 38:8

Ebed-melech went out from the king’s palace and spoke to the king, saying:

Jeremiah 39:17

But I will deliver you in that day—it is a declaration of Adonai—and you will not be given into the hand of the men whom you dread.

Jeremiah 52:6

In the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the famine was so severe in the city, that there was no food for the people of the land.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan, as they seek bread. They traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. “Look, Adonai, and see! For I have become despised!”

Lamentations 3:53

They cut off my life in the Pit, and cast stones upon me.