Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 37:20

20 Therefore hear now I pray thee, O my lord the king , let my supplication, I pray thee be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I dye there .

Though Ieremiah had dealt very faithfully with the King and Princes, and they had dealt very hardly and cruelly with him, casting him for no just cause into a nasty prison, and Ieremiah knew well enough, that Zedekiah was very soon to be disarmed of his power, yet (to learn us our duty) he speaks with all due respect and reverence to his Soveraign, though a very bad man, and one who had dealt very ill with him.

This petition of Ieremiah, speaks the prison he was in a very inconvenient place, where he was in danger of his life.

Marginal references: Heb. Let my supplication fall.