² Now at that time the military force of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the ^(A)court of the guard, which was in the house of the king of Judah, ³ because Zedekiah king of Judah had ^(B)shut him up, saying, “Why do you ^(C)prophesy, saying, ‘^(D)Thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am about to ^(E)give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it;

¹⁵ Then the officials were ^(A)angry at Jeremiah and struck him, and they ^(B)put him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe because they had made that house into the prison.