Jeremiah 38:9 ““My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have…”

Jeremiah 38:9

“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.

World English Bible

“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”

American Standard Version

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.

Geneva Bible 1599

My lorde the King, these men haue done euill in all that they haue done to Ieremiah the Prophet, whom they haue cast into the dungeon, and he dyeth for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the citie.

Darby Translation

My lord, O king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to the prophet Jeremiah, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he will die by reason of the famine in the place where he is; for there is no more bread in the city.

Young's Literal Translation

'My lord, O king, these men have done evil [in] all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the pit, and he dieth in his place because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.'

Bible in Basic English

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have put into the water-hole; and he will come to his death in the place where he is through need of food: for there is no more bread in the town.

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Cross references

“these”

Esther 7:4–6 Job 31:34 Jeremiah 38:1–6 Proverbs 24:11 Proverbs 24:12 Proverbs 31:8

Esther 7:4–6 · BSB

For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening t…

Job 31:34 · BSB

because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—

Jeremiah 38:1–6 · BSB

Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchijah heard that Jeremiah had been telling all the people:

Proverbs 24:11 · BSB

Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.

Proverbs 24:12 · BSB

If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?

Proverbs 31:8 · BSB

Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.

“is like to die”

Jeremiah 52:6 Jeremiah 37:21

Jeremiah 52:6 · BSB

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

Jeremiah 37:21 · BSB

So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the co…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Ebed-melech went out from the king’s palace and said to the king,

10So the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and pull Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”

Read Jeremiah 38