14. Then Jeremiah said, “That is false! I am not defecting to the Kasdim.”But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah siezed Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
15. The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
16. When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,
17. then Zedekiah the king sent, and had him brought out. The king asked him secretly in his house, “Is there any word from the Lord?”Jeremiah said, “There is.” He also said, “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
18. Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?
19. Now where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you, nor against this land?’