24After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me this vision: behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the LORD.H3068H7200H8147H1736H8384H3259H6440H1964H3068H310H5019H4428H894H1540H3204H1121H3079H4428H3063H8269H3063H2796H4525H3389H935H8942One 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.H259H1731H3966H2896H8384H8384H1073H259H1731H3966H7451H8384H398H74553And 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."H559H3068H7200H3414H559H8384H2896H8384H3966H2896H7451H3966H7451H398H74554Then the word of the LORD came to me:H1697H3068H5595"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 Chaldeans.H559H3068H430H3478H2896H8384H5234H1546H3063H7971H4725H776H3778H28966I will set my eyes on 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.H7760H5869H2896H7725H776H1129H2040H5193H54287I 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.H5414H3820H3045H3068H5971H430H7725H38208"But thus says the LORD: Like the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.H7451H8384H398H7455H559H3068H5414H6667H4428H3063H8269H7611H3389H7604H776H3427H776H47149I 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.H5414H2189H2113H4467H776H7451H2781H4912H8148H7045H4725H508010And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers."H7971H2719H7458H1698H8552H127H5414H1