Jeremiah 24:1-5 ▼

1 YHWH has shown me—and behold—two baskets of figs set before the temple of YHWH, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had removed Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the craftsmen and and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

2 One basket had very good figs like the figs first ripe, and the other basket had very bad figs that could not be eaten for badness.

3 “And YHWH 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 could not be eaten for badness.”

4 And again the word of YHWH came to me, saying:

5 “Thus says YHWH, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captive of Judah, whom I sent forth from this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good.