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 mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
“ I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me;water closed over my head; I said,‘ I am lost.’“ I called on your name, O Lord, from the depths of the pit;