⁵ And Jeremiah gave orders to Baruch, saying, I am shut up, and am not able to go into the house of the Lord:

¹ Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, saying,

² Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was round Jerusalem, shutting it in: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, in the house of the king of Judah.

²³ Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

³⁶ And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons:

⁹ In which I put up with the hardest conditions, even prison chains, like one who has done a crime; but the word of God is not in chains.

²⁰ For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say.

¹ For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,

⁴ Now see, this day I am freeing you from the chains which are on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will keep an eye on you; but if it does not seem good to you to come with me to Babylon, then do not come: see, all the land is before you; if it seems good and right to you to go on living in the land,

²⁸ So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen till the day when Jerusalem was taken.

⁶ So they took Jeremiah and put him into the water-hole of Malchiah, the king's son, in the place of the armed watchmen: and they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the hole there was no water, but wet earth: and Jeremiah went down into the wet earth.

¹⁵ And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

² And Pashhur gave blows to Jeremiah and had his feet chained in a framework of wood in the higher doorway of Benjamin, which was in the house of the Lord.