Jeremiah 38:7-9

New Catholic Bible

⁷ However, it so happened that an Ethiopian, Ebed-melech,^[a] who was a eunuch in the king’s palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. Therefore, he decided to report this to the king, ⁸ and he left the palace to speak to the king who at that moment was seated at the Benjamin Gate. ⁹ “My lord king,” he said, “these men have acted wickedly in their treatment of the prophet Jeremiah. They threw him into a cistern and left him there to die of hunger, for there is no more bread left in the city.”