Jeremiah 24

1 יהוה shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of יהוה, after that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon (Bavel) had carried away captive Yekhonyah the son of Yehoyaqim king of Judah (Yehudah), and the princes of Judah (Yehudah), with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem (Yerushalayim), and had brought them to Babylon (Bavel).

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 יהוה unto me, “What seest you, Jeremiah (Yirmeyahu)?” And I said, “Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.”

4 Again the word of יהוה came unto me, saying,

5 “Thus saith יהוה, the God of Israel (Elohei Yisrael): ‘Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah (Yehudah), 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 a heart to know Me, that I am יהוה; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God (Elohim), for they shall return unto Me with their whole heart.

8 And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’; surely thus saith יהוה, ‘So will I give Zedekiah (Tsidqiyahu) the king of Judah (Yehudah), and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem (Yerushalayim), that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt (Mitsrayim).

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.’”