Jer 7:1, 31, 33, Jer 24 | ESV | STEP | The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord :

Jeremiah 7:1

Evil in the Land

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:

Jeremiah 7:31

31 And they have built the high places of ^aTopheth, which is in ^bthe Valley of the Son of Hinnom, ^cto burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, ^dwhich I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.

Jeremiah 7:33

33 ^eAnd the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, ^fand none will frighten them away.

Jeremiah 24

The Good Figs and the Bad Figs

1 ^gAfter Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem ^hJeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with ⁱthe officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me this vision: behold, ^jtwo baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord. 2 One basket had very good figs, ^klike first-ripe figs, but the other basket had ^lvery 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, ^mwhom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. 6 ⁿI will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. ^oI will build them up, and not tear them down; ^pI will plant them, and not pluck them up. 7 ^qI will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, ^rand they shall be my people ^sand I will be their God, ^tfor they shall return to me with their whole heart.

8 “But thus says the Lord: Like ^uthe bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat ^vZedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who ^wdwell in the land of Egypt. 9 I will make them ^xa horror ^{▼▼Compare Septuagint; Hebrew horror for evil} to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be ^za reproach, ^aaa byword, ^aba taunt, and ^aca curse in all the places where I shall drive them. 10 And I will send ^adsword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.”