Jeremiah 24 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Baskets of Figs and the Returnees

Jer 24:1After Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconi'ah the son of Jehoi'akim, king of Judah, together with the princes of Judah, the craftsmen, and the smiths, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me this vision: Behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the LORD.

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Jer 24:2One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

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Jer 24:3And the LORD said 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."

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Jer 24:4Then the word of the LORD came to me:

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Jer 24:5"Thus says the LORD, 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 Chalde'ans.

Jer 24:6

Jer 24:6I will set my eyes upon 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 uproot them.

Jer 24:7

Jer 24:7I will give them a heart to know that I am the LORD; and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

Jer 24:8

Jer 24:8"But thus says the LORD: Like the bad figs which are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat Zedeki'ah the king of Judah, his princes, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

Jer 24:9

Jer 24:9I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

Jer 24:10

Jer 24:10And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their fathers."

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Jeremiah 24 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Baskets of Figs and the Returnees

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