Criminals in Dungeons

For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”

So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.

Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.

They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.

So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.

So the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and pull Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”

They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.

I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.