Bible in Basic English
"Then Zedekiah the king said, See, he is in your hands: for the king was not able to do anything against them."
— Jeremiah 38:5, Bible in Basic English
“Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.”
“And Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can do anything against you. ”
“Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he who can do anything against you.”
“King Zedekiah said to them,“Very well, you can do what you want with him. For I cannot do anything to stop you.””
These are the words of the Lord: Whoever goes on living in this town will come to his death by the sword or through need of food or by disease: but whoever goes out to the Chaldaeans will keep his life out of the power of the attackers and be safe.
The Lord has said, This town will certainly be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.
Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage.
Then Zedekiah the king said, See, he is in your hands: for the king was not able to do anything against them.
So they took Jeremiah and put him into the water-hole of Malchiah, the king's son, in the place of the armed watchmen: and they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the hole there was no water, but wet earth: and Jeremiah went down into the wet earth.
Now it came to the ears of Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an unsexed servant in the king's house, that they had put Jeremiah into the water-hole; the king at that time being seated in the doorway of Benjamin:
And Ebed-melech went out from the king's house and said to the king,