| Chapter
24 |
| 1 | The
LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of
the LORD, 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 had very good
figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very
naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. |
| 3 | Then said the LORD 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 the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 5 | Thus saith the LORD, the God 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 their 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 them down; and I will plant
them, and not pluck them up. |
| 7
| And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they
shall be my people, and I will be their God: 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
the LORD, 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 their hurt,
to be 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. |
