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Jeremiah 24:1-10 — Two Baskets of Figs

Jer.24.1-10

¹Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Yahweh, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had exiled Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah, and the craftsmen and the metalworkers from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. ²One basket had very good figs, like early-ripening figs, and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten because they were so bad. ³And Yahweh said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs; the good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, which cannot be eaten because they are so bad.” ⁴Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying: ⁵"Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles of Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. ⁶For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will return them to this land; and I will build them up and not tear them down, and I will plant them and not uproot them. ⁷I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart. ⁸"'But like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten because they are so bad,' surely thus says Yahweh, 'so I will give up Zedekiah king of Judah, and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt. ⁹I will make them a horror and a disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all the places where I banish them. ¹⁰And I will send among them the sword , the famine, and the pestilence, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.'"

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4/11/2026

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