²¹ Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

⁴ His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

² Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord.

⁷ Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;