²⁴ and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

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. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

⁷ For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

² He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, And gave me a firm place to stand.

⁶ You have laid me in the lowest pit, In the darkest depths.

⁸ You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.

¹ > Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.

² Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

⁵² They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

⁵³ They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

⁵⁴ Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

⁵⁵ I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.

²⁰ The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

¹¹ As for you also, Because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.