20 And now listen, please, O my lord the king. May my request for favor,+ please, fall before you, and do not send me back to the house of Je·honʹa·than+ the secretary, that I may not die there.”+

6 And they proceeded to take Jeremiah and throw him into the cistern of Mal·chiʹjah*+ the son of the king, which was in the Courtyard of the Guard.+ So they let Jeremiah down by means of ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah began to sink down into the mire.+