Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with ropes. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sank in the mire.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Mire, up to the neck; so that he would soon have been smothered. (Josephus, Antiquities x. 10.)

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