24:1 After
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.
24:2 One
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.
24:3 And
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."
24:4 Then
the
word
of
the
LORD
came
to
me:
24:5 "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.
24:6 I
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.
24:7 I
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.
24:8 "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.
24:9 I
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.
24:10 And
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."