And they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.
So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
The breath of our nostrils, the Lord's anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”
“I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause; they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me; water closed over my head; I said, ‘I am lost.’ “I called on your name, O Lord, from the depths of the pit;
You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep.
He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.
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