17 King Zedekiah sent for him and received him. The king questioned him (A)secretly in his house and said, “Is there any word from the Lord?” Jeremiah said, “There is.” Then he said, (B)“You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.” 18 Jeremiah also said to King Zedekiah, “What wrong have I done to you or your servants or this people, (C)that you have put me in prison? 19 (D)Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land’?

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17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

18 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?

19 Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

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