¹⁶ For Jeremiah had come into the ^[a](A)dungeon, that is, the vaulted cell; and Jeremiah stayed there many days.

⁶ So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the ^(A)cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water but only ^(B)mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.

⁹ “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have thrown into the cistern; and he will die right where he is because of the famine, for there is ^(A)no more bread in the city.”