1 j2 Kgs. 24:12; 2 Chr. 36:10 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from JerusalemkMatt. 1:11; [ch. 22:18, 24, 28] Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together withlch. 29:2; 2 Kgs. 24:12, 14 the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me this vision: behold,mAmos 8:1, 2 two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord. 2 One basket had very good figs,n[Isa. 28:4] like first-ripe figs, but the other basket hadoch. 29:17 very 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,pch. 29:20 whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. 6 q[Amos 9:4] I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land.rch. 12:15; 29:10 I will build them up, and not tear them down;sch. 31:28; 42:10; [ch. 1:10; Amos 9:15] I will plant them, and not uproot them. 7 tch. 32:39; Deut. 30:6; Ezek. 11:19; 36:26, 27 I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord,uSee ch. 30:22; 31:33 and they shall be my peopleuSee ch. 30:22; 31:33 and I will be their God,vch. 29:13; Joel 2:12, 13 for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
8 But thus says the Lord : Likewver. 2; ch. 29:17 the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treatxch. 21:1 Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those whoySee ch. 43–44 dwell in the land of Egypt. 9 I will make themzSee ch. 15:4 a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to beach. 29:18; 49:13; Neh. 2:17; Isa. 43:28 a reproach,bDeut. 28:37; 2 Chr. 7:20 a byword,ach. 29:18; 49:13; Neh. 2:17; Isa. 43:28 a taunt, andcch. 25:18; 26:6; 29:22; 2 Kgs. 22:19 a curse in all the places where I shall drive them. 10 And I will senddSee ch. 14:12 sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers. ”