24 The
LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple
of the LORD, after that 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. 2 One
basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and
the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they
were so bad. 3 Then
said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the
good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they
are so evil. 4 Again
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 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.
6
For I will set mine 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. 7 And I will give them an 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 unto me with their whole heart. 8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be
eaten, they are so evil; 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: 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. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine,
and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land
that I gave unto them and to their fathers. .
