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15 And the officials were angry at Jeremiah and they struck him. And they put him in prison,[a] in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for they had converted it to the prison[b]. 16 So Jeremiah came to the dungeon[c], even to the vaulted cells, and Jeremiah stayed there many days.

17 Then King Zedekiah sent and fetched him. And the king questioned him in secrecy in his house, and he said, “Is there a word from Yahweh?” And Jeremiah said, “There is.” And he said, “You will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 37:15 Literally “the house of the fetters”
  2. Jeremiah 37:15 Literally “house of the imprisonment”
  3. Jeremiah 37:16 Literally “house of the cistern”