Jeremiah:24

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* The LORD shewed me , and , behold , two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD , after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah , and the princes of Judah , with the carpenters and smiths , from Jerusalem , and had brought them to Babylon . * One basket had very good figs t @#en #, even like the figs that are first ripe : and the other basket had very naughty figs t @#en #, which could not be eaten , they were so bad . * Then said the LORD unto me , What seest thou , Jeremiah ? And I said , Figs t @#en #; the good figs t @#en #, very good ; and the evil , very evil , that cannot be eaten , they are so evil . * Again the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , * Thus saith the LORD , the God of Israel Yisra #el #; Like these good figs t @#en #, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah , whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good . * For I will set mine eyes upon them for good , and I will bring them again to this land : and I will build them , and not pull them down ; and I will plant them , and not pluck them up . * And I will give them an heart to know me , that I am the LORD : and they shall be my people , and I will be their God : for they shall return unto me with their whole heart . * And as the evil figs t @#en #, which cannot be eaten , they are so evil ; surely thus saith the LORD , So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah , and his princes , and the residue of Jerusalem , that remain in this land , and them that dwell in the land of Egypt : * And I will deliver them to be removed za # into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt , to be a reproach and a proverb , a taunt and a curse , in all places whither I shall drive them . * And I will send the sword , the famine ra #ab #, and the pestilence , among them , till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers .

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