Jeremiah 24
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Good and bad figs
1After Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar had deported Judah’s King Jeconiah, King Jehoiakim’s son, and the Judean officials, as well as the craftsmen and metalworkers from Jerusalem to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs set in front of the LORD’s temple. 2One basket was filled with fresh and ripe figs; the other basket was filled with rotten figs—too rotten to eat. 3And the LORD asked me: “What do you see, Jeremiah?”
I replied: “Figs! Some good ones and others very bad—so bad that they can’t be eaten.”
4Then the LORD said to me: 5The LORD, the God of Israel, proclaims: Just as with these good figs, I will treat kindly the Judean exiles that I have sent from this place to Babylon. 6I regard them as good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not pull them down; I will plant them and not dig them up. 7I will give them a heart to know me, for I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart. 8And just like the rotten figs that are so bad that they can’t be eaten, the LORD says, I will do to Judah’s King Zedekiah and his officials, as well as the remaining few in Jerusalem and those who are living in Egypt. 9I will make them an object of horror and evil to all the kingdoms of the earth. Wherever I scatter them, they will be disgraced and insulted, mocked and cursed. 10I will send the sword, famine, and disease against them until they vanish from the fertile land that I gave to their ancestors.
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Jeremiah 24
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1The Lord showed me in vision two baskets of figs placed in front of the Lord's Temple. This happened after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had taken to Babylon Jehoiachin,#24:1. Here called “Jeconiah.” son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, as well as the leaders of Judah, and the craftsmen and metal-workers from Jerusalem.
2One basket was full of very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket only had very bad figs, so bad they couldn't be eaten.
3“Jeremiah,” the Lord asked, “what can you see?”
“I see figs!” I replied. “The good figs look very good, but the bad figs look very bad, so bad they can't be eaten.”
4Then a message from the Lord came to me, saying, 5This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: The good figs represent to me the exiles from Judah, those I have sent away from here to the country of Babylonia. 6I will watch over them and I will bring them back to this country. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them. 7I will give them the desire to know me, to know that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will come back completely committed to me.
8But the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten, says the Lord, represent the way I will deal with Zedekiah, king of Judah, his officials, and those who are left of Jerusalem, as well as those remaining in this country and those living in Egypt. 9I'm going to make an example of them that will horrify and offend everyone on earth. They will be disgraced, mocked, ridiculed, and cursed everywhere I've exiled them. 10I'm going to attack them with war and famine and plague, until they're completely wiped out from the country that I gave to them and their forefathers.
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