Jer 24:2-9, Mat 22:10 | ESV | STEP | 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 .

Jeremiah 24:2-9

2 One basket had very good figs, ^alike first-ripe figs, but the other basket had ^bvery bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten. 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.”

4 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 5 “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, ^cwhom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. 6 ^dI will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. ^eI will build them up, and not tear them down; ^fI will plant them, and not pluck them up. 7 ^gI will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, ^hand they shall be my people ⁱand I will be their God, ^jfor they shall return to me with their whole heart.

8 “But thus says the Lord: Like ^kthe bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat ^lZedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who ^mdwell in the land of Egypt. 9 I will make them ⁿa horror ^{▼▼Compare Septuagint; Hebrew horror for evil} to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be ^pa reproach, ^qa byword, ^ra taunt, and ^sa curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

Matthew 22:10

10 And those servants went out into the roads and ^tgathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.