20 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the King: let my prayer be [a]acceptable before thee, that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jehonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

21 Then Zedekiah the King commanded, that they should put Jeremiah in the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the baker’s street until all the [b]bread in the city were eaten up. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 37:20 Hebrew, fall.
  2. Jeremiah 37:21 That is, so long as there was any bread in the city: thus God provideth for his, that he will cause their enemies to preserve them to that end whereunto he hath appointed them.

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