24The LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the Temple. (This was after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia had taken away Jehoiakim's son, King Jehoiachin of Judah, as a prisoner from Jerusalem to Babylonia, together with the leaders of Judah, the craftworkers, and the skilled workers.)H3068H7200H8147H1736H8384H3259H6440H1964H3068H310H5019H4428H894H1540H3204H1121H3079H4428H3063H8269H3063H2796H4525H3389H935H8942The first basket contained good figs, those that ripen early; the other one contained bad figs, too bad to eat.H259H1731H3966H2896H8384H8384H1073H259H1731H3966H7451H8384H398H74553Then the LORD said to me, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" I answered, "Figs. The good ones are very good, and the bad ones are very bad, too bad to eat."H559H3068H7200H3414H559H8384H2896H8384H3966H2896H7451H3966H7451H398H74554So the LORD said to me,H1697H3068H5595"I, the LORD, the God of Israel, consider that the people who were taken away to Babylonia are like these good figs, and I will treat them with kindness.H559H3068H430H3478H2896H8384H5234H1546H3063H7971H4725H776H3778H28966I will watch over them and bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not pull them up.H7760H5869H2896H7725H776H1129H2040H5193H54287I will give them the desire to know that I am the LORD. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God, because they will return to me with all their heart.H5414H3820H3045H3068H5971H430H7725H38208"As for King Zedekiah of Judah, the politicians around him, and the rest of the people of Jerusalem who have stayed in this land or moved to Egypt - I, the LORD, will treat them all like these figs that are too bad to be eaten.H7451H8384H398H7455H559H3068H5414H6667H4428H3063H8269H7611H3389H7604H776H3427H776H47149I will bring such a disaster on them that all the nations of the world will be terrified. People will make fun of them, make jokes about them, ridicule them, and use their name as a curse everywhere I scatter them.H5414H2189H2113H4467H776H7451H2781H4912H8148H7045H4725H508010I will bring war, starvation, and disease on them until there is not one of them left in the land that I gave to them and their ancestors."H7971H2719H7458H1698H8552H127H5414H1
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