Jeremiah Chapter 24 Back Next{24:1} Yahweh showed me, and behold, two
baskets of
figs set before Yahweh's temple, after that Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon had carried away
captive Jeconiah the son of
Jehoiakim, king of
Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from
Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
{24:2} One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
{24:3} Then Yahweh said to me, What do you see,
Jeremiah? I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can't be eaten, they are so bad.
{24:4} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
{24:5} Thus says Yahweh, the God of
Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the
land of the Chaldeans, for good.
{24:6} For I will set my eyes on 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} I will give them a
heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
{24:8} As the bad figs, which can't be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of
Egypt,
{24:9} I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the
earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
{24:10} I will send the sword, the
famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their
fathers.
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