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Jeremiah 23:1-40 | Jeremiah_24:1-10 | Jeremiah 27:12-22

1. יְהוָ֥ה shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of יְהוָ֥ה, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
2. One basket very good figs, like the figs first ripe: and the other basket very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
3. Then said יְהוָ֥ה unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
4. Again the word of יְהוָ֥ה came unto me, saying,
5. Thus saith יְהוָ֥ה, the Elohim of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for 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 down; and I will plant them, and not pluck up.
7. And I will give them an heart to know me, that יְהוָ֥ה: and they shall be my people, and I will be their Elohim: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
8. And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith יְהוָ֥ה, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
9. And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for hurt, 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.