¹⁸ Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “What crime have I done against you or your officers or the people of Jerusalem? Why have you thrown me into prison? ¹⁹ Where are your prophets that prophesied this message to you: ‘The king of Babylon will not attack you or this land of Judah’? ²⁰ But now, my master, king of Judah, please listen to me, and please do what I ask of you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the royal secretary, or I will die there!”