Catholic Public Domain Version
"Now therefore, listen, I beg you, my lord the king. Let my petition prevail in your sight. And do not send me back into the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.” "
— Jeremiah 37:19, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?”
“Where now are your prophets that prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? ”
“Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?”
“Where now are the prophets who prophesied to you that the king of Babylon would not attack you or this land?”
“Now therefore hear, I beseech thee, my lord the king: let my petition be accepted in thy sight: and send me not back into the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.”
“Where now are your prophets who said to you, The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land?”
“Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?”
Then Zedekiah the king, sending, took him out and questioned him secretly in his house, and he said: “Do you think that there is any word from the Lord?” And Jeremiah said: “There is.” And he said: “You will be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.”
And Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah: “How have I sinned against you, or your servants, or your people, such that you would cast me into a house of imprisonment?
Where are your prophets, who were prophesying to you, and who were saying: ‘The king of Babylon will not overwhelm you and this land?’
Now therefore, listen, I beg you, my lord the king. Let my petition prevail in your sight. And do not send me back into the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.”
Then king Zedekiah instructed that Jeremiah be confined to the vestibule of the prison, and that they should give him a twist of bread daily, along with stew, until all the bread in the city had been consumed. And Jeremiah remained at the entrance of the prison.