Jeremiah 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.
