a2 Kin 24:10-16; 2 Chr 36:10; Jer 27:20; 29:1, 2
bAmos 8:1
cMic 7:1; Nah 3:12
dIs 5:4, 7; Jer 29:17
eJer 1:11, 13; Amos 8:2; Zech 4:2
fNah 1:7; Zech 13:9
gJer 12:15; 29:10; 32:37; Ezek 11:17
hJer 31:4; 32:41; 33:7; 42:10
iJer 32:41
jDeut 30:6; Jer 31:33; 32:40; Ezek 11:19; 36:26
kIs 51:16; Jer 7:23; 30:22; 31:33; 32:38; Ezek 14:11; Zech 8:8; Heb 8:10
l1 Sam 7:3; Ps 119:2; Jer 29:13
mJer 29:17
nJer 39:5; Ezek 12:12, 13
oJer 39:9
pJer 44:1, 26-30
qJer 15:4; 29:18; 34:17
r1 Kin 9:7; Ps 44:13, 14
sIs 65:15
tIs 51:19; Jer 21:9; 27:8; Ezek 5:12-17

Jeremiah 24

Baskets of Figs and the Returnees

1 After aNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and metalworkers from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me: behold, two bbaskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord. 2One basket had very good figs, like cfirst-ripe figs, and the other basket had dvery bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness. 3Then the Lord said to me, “ eWhat do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs: the good figs are very good, and the bad ones, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.”

4 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 5“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard fas good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans. 6For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will gbring them back to this land; and I will hbuild them up and not overthrow them, and I will iplant them and not uproot them. 7I will also give them a jheart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be kMy people, and I will be their God, for they will lreturn to Me wholeheartedly.

8 ‘But like the mbad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness,’ indeed, this is what the Lord says, ‘so will I give up nZedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the oremnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and the ones who live in the land of pEgypt. 9I will qmake them an object of terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a rdisgrace and a proverb, a taunt and a scurse in all the places where I will scatter them. 10And I will send the tsword, the famine, and the plague upon them until they are eliminated from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’”

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