JER-24:1  The LORD showed 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.

JER-24:2  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.

JER-24:3  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.

JER-24:4  Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

JER-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.

JER-24:6  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.

JER-24:7  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.

JER-24:8  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:

JER-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.

JER-24:10  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.

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