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.
02 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.
03 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.
04 Again the word of the Lord came unto me,
saying,
05 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.
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06 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.
07 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.
08 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:
09 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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