Lamentations 3:53 Cross References - Rotherham

⁵³ They have cut off, in the dungeon, my life, and have cast a stone upon me;

¹⁶ When Jeremiah had entered into the dungeon–house and into the cells, and Jeremiah, had remained there, many days,

²⁰ Now, therefore, hear, I beseech thee, O my lord the king,––Let my supplication, I pray thee, fall prostrate before thee, and do not cause me to return unto the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there!

⁶ Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah son of the king, which was in the guard–court, and they let Jeremiah down with ropes,––now, in the dungeon, was no, water, only mire, so Jeremiah sank, in the mire.

⁹ My lord, O King! wickedly, have these men done all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom indeed they have cast into the dungeon,––since he would have died where he was, because of the famine, for there is no, bread any longer, in the city.

¹⁷ And there was brought a certain stone, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet–ring, and with the signet–ring of his nobles, that nothing might be changed, as to Daniel.

⁶⁰ and laid it in his new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock, and, rolling near a large stone unto the door of the tomb, departed.

⁶⁶ And, they, went and secured for themselves the sepulchre, sealing the stone, with the guard.