犹大王希西家患病，已经痊愈，就作诗说，
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
我像燕子呢喃。像白鹤呜叫。又像鸽子哀呜。我因仰观，眼睛困倦。耶和华阿，我受欺压。求你为我作保。
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
只有活人，活人必称谢你，像我今日称谢你一样。为父的，必使儿女知道你的诚实。
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
希西家问说，我能上耶和华的殿，有什么兆头呢。
Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
耶和华如此说，住在这城里的必遭刀剑，饥荒，瘟疫而死。但出去归降迦勒底人的必得存活，就是以自己命为掠物的，必得存活。
Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
西底家王说，他在你们手中，无论何事，王也不能与你们反对。
Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.
他们就拿住耶利米，下在哈米勒的儿子（或作王的儿子）玛基雅的牢狱里。那牢狱在护卫兵的院中。他们用绳子将耶利米系下去。牢狱里没有水，只有淤泥，耶利米就陷在淤泥中。
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, 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.
以伯米勒就从王宫里出来，对王说，
Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,
主我的王阿，这些人向先知耶利米一味地行恶，将他下在牢狱中。他在那里必因饥饿而死，因为城中再没有粮食。
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.
王就吩咐古实人以伯米勒说，你从这里带领三十人，趁着先知耶利米未死以前，将他从牢狱中提上来。
Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.