[5] Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing [6] Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.