⁵ And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of Jehovah:

¹ Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

² Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

³⁶ and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

⁹ wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.

²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

¹ For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,--

⁴ And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which are upon thy hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will look well unto thee; but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee; whither it seemeth good and right unto thee to go, thither go.

²⁸ So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

⁶ Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

¹⁵ And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

² Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Jehovah.