Bible, King James Version
Jeremiah
Jer.24
[1] 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.
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