Now Jeremias walked freely in the midst of the people, for they had not as yet cast him into prison.

And Jeremiah is coming in and going out in the midst of the people, (and they have not put him in the prison-house),

(Now Jeremiah was going about among the people, for they had not put him in prison.

Now Jeremiah was walking freely in the midst of the people. For they had not yet sent him into the custody of the prison.

Et Jeremias (autem) ibat et egrediebatur in medio populi; necdum posuerant eum in domum clausurae (vel, carceris)

Now Jeremiah came in and went out - After the siege was raised, he had a measure of liberty; he was not closely confined, as he afterwards was. See Jeremiah 37:16.

Now Jeremiah came (d) in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.
(d) That is, was out of prison and free.

Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people,.... Was at full liberty, and could go out of the city, and come in, when he pleased; or go into any part of it, and converse with the people, and prophesy to them; which he could not do in the latter part of Jehoiakim's reign, who sent persons after him and Baruch to take them, and they were obliged to hide themselves, yea, the Lord hid them, Jeremiah 36:19; but now he was under no restraint, as least as yet:
for they had not put him into prison; not yet; they afterwards did, Jeremiah 37:15.

Jeremiah . . . not put . . . into prison--He was no longer in the prison court, as he had been (Jeremiah 32:2; Jeremiah 33:1), which passages refer to the beginning of the siege, not to the time when the Chaldeans renewed the siege, after having withdrawn for a time to meet Pharaoh.