Devine Scripture

Jeremiah 38:9

Jeremiah chapter 38 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.8Ebed-melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spake to the king, saying,

v.9This passage

v.10Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 31:34

    Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door—

  • Proverbs 24:11

    Deliver them that are carried away unto death, And those that are ready to be slain see that thou hold back.

  • Proverbs 31:8

    Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.

  • Esther 7:4

    for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s damage.

  • Jeremiah 37:21

    Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

  • Jeremiah 52:6

    In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.