For I am aware of all his regulations, and I do not reject his rules.

“Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the roadway. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.

Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. The locks of your hair are like royal tapestries – the king is held captive in its tresses!

So they went and called out to the gatekeepers of the city. They told them, “We entered the Syrian camp and there was no one there. We didn’t even hear a man’s voice. But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up.”

so he imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard in the same facility where Joseph was confined.

He said to her, “If they tie me tightly with brand new ropes that have never been used, I will become weak and be just like any other man.”

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after Nebuzaradan the captain of the royal guard had set him free at Ramah. He had taken him there in chains along with all the people from Jerusalem and Judah who were being carried off to exile to Babylon.