THE LORD showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the craftmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first rip; and the other basket had very very bad figs which cannot be eaten, thay were so bad.

3 Then the LORD said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah? "And I said, "Figs, the good, very good; and the bad, very bad which cannot be eaten, they are so bad."

4 Again the word of the LORD come to me, saying,

5 "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: 'like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own  good, into the land of the Chaldeans.

6 'For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.

7 'Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and shall be My people, and I will be their God, For they shall return to Me with whole heart.

8 'And As the bad fig which cannot be eaten, they are so bad' - so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah his princes, the residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

9 'I will deliver them to trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, to be reproach and a byword, a taunt and curse, in all the places where I shall drive them.

10 'And I will send the sword, the famine, and pestilence among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.' "JEREMIAH 24