¹⁸ Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah: “How have I sinned against you or against your servants or against this people, that you have put me in prison? ¹⁹ Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying: ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land?’ ²⁰ So now please listen, my lord the king! Please let my petition come before you and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, so I will not die there.”