24:1 The LORD showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs [were]
set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim,
king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters
and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
24:2 One basket [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs [that
are] first ripe: and the other basket [had] very poor figs,
which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
24:3 Then said the LORD to me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? and I
said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad,
that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.
24:4 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
24:5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good
figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive
of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of
the Chaldeans for [their] good.
24:6 For I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring
them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull
[them] down; and I will plant them, and not pluck [them] up.
24:7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I [am] the
LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for
they shall return to me with their whole heart.
24:8 And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so
bad; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the
king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem,
that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of
Egypt:
24:9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms
of the earth for [their] hurt, [to be] a reproach and a
proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall
drive them.
24:10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence,
among them, till they are consumed from off the land that I
gave to them and to their fathers.
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