Jeremiah 24:1-10
24 And Jehovah showed me, and, look! two baskets of figs set before the temple of Jehovah, after Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon had carried into exile Jec·o·niʹah*+ the son of Je·hoiʹa·kim,+ the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah and the craftsmen+ and the builders of bulwarks, from Jerusalem that he might bring them to Babylon.+
2 As for the one basket, the figs were very good, like early figs;+ and as for the other basket, the figs were very bad, so that they could not be eaten for badness.
3 And Jehovah proceeded to say to me: “What are you seeing, Jeremiah?” So I said: “Figs, the good figs being very good, and the bad ones being very bad, so that they cannot be eaten for badness.”+
4 Then the word of Jehovah occurred to me, saying:
5 “This is what Jehovah the God of Israel has said, ‘Like these good figs, so I shall regard the exiles of Judah, whom I will send away from this place to the land of the Chal·deʹans,+ in a good way.+
6 And I will set my eye upon them in a good way,+ and I shall certainly cause them to return to this land.+ And I will build them up, and I shall not tear down; and I will plant them, and I shall not uproot.+
7 And I will give them a heart to know me,+ that I am Jehovah; and they must become my people,+ and I myself shall become their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.+
8 “‘And like the bad figs that cannot be eaten for badness,+ this in fact is what Jehovah has said: “So I shall give Zed·e·kiʹah+ the king of Judah and his princes and the remnant of Jerusalem who are remaining over in this land+ and those who are dwelling in the land of Egypt+—
9 I will also give them over for quaking, for calamity, in all the kingdoms of the earth,+ for reproach and for a proverbial saying, for a taunt+ and for a malediction,+ in all the places to which I shall disperse them.+
10 And I will send against them the sword,+ the famine+ and the pestilence,+ until they come to their finish off the ground that I gave to them and to their forefathers.”’”+
