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24 : 1 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from JerusalemJeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together withthe officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, theLordshowed me this vision: behold,two baskets of figs placed before the temple of theLord.
24 : 2 One basket had very good figs,like first-ripe figs, but the other basket hadvery bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.
24 : 3 And theLordsaid to me,What do you see, Jeremiah?I said,Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.
24 : 4 Then the word of theLordcame to me:
24 : 5 Thus says theLord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah,whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
24 : 6 I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land.I will build them up, and not tear them down;I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
24 : 7 I will give them a heart to know that I am theLord,and they shall be my peopleand I will be their God,for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
24 : 8 But thus says theLord: Likethe bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treatZedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those whodwell in the land of Egypt.
24 : 9 I will make thema horrorto all the kingdoms of the earth, to bea reproach,a byword,a taunt, anda curse in all the places where I shall drive them.
24 : 10 And I will sendsword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.