Jeremiah 24:4 - Prayer Tents

Two Baskets of Figs

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.)H3068H7200H8147H1736H8384H3259H6440H1964H3068H310H5019H4428H894H1540H3204H1121H3079H4428H3063H8269H3063H2796H4525H3389H935H894 2The first basket contained good figs, those that ripen early; the other one contained bad figs, too bad to eat.H259H1731H3966H2896H8384H8384H1073H259H1731H3966H7451H8384H398H7455 3Then 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."H559H3068H7200H3414H559H8384H2896H8384H3966H2896H7451H3966H7451H398H7455 4So the LORD said to me,H1697H3068H559 5"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.H559H3068H430H3478H2896H8384H5234H1546H3063H7971H4725H776H3778H2896 6I 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.H7760H5869H2896H7725H776H1129H2040H5193H5428 7I 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.H5414H3820H3045H3068H5971H430H7725H3820 8"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.H7451H8384H398H7455H559H3068H5414H6667H4428H3063H8269H7611H3389H7604H776H3427H776H4714 9I 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.H5414H2189H2113H4467H776H7451H2781H4912H8148H7045H4725H5080 10I 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