16. For Jeremiah had entered the dungeon, that is, the vaulted cell, and Jeremiah had remained there many days.
17. Then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out; and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, “Is there any word from the Lord?”And Jeremiah said, “There is!” Then he said, “You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
18. Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or against your servants or against this people that you have put me in prison?
19. Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you, nor against this land’?
20. Therefore now please listen, O my lord the king. Please let my supplication be accepted before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.”
21. Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison and give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was finished. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.