[1] Yahweh showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the
temple of Yahweh, 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 craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought
them to Babylon. [2] One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are
first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be
eaten, they were so bad. [3] Then said Yahweh to me, What see you,
Jeremiah? I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad,
that can`t be eaten, they are so bad. [4] The word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, [5] Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so
will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place
into the land of the Chaldeans, for good. [6] For I will set my eyes on
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] I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall
be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with
their whole heart. [8] As the bad figs, which can`t be eaten, they are so
bad, surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah,
and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and
those who dwell in the land of Egypt, [9] I will even give them up to be
tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a
reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall
drive them. [10] I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence,
among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them
and to their fathers.
