Jeremiah 24

Chapter 24

Good and Bad Figs

1 After King Nebuchadnezzart of Babylon exiled Jehoiachint son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, to Babylon along with the officials of Judah and all the craftsmen and artisans, the LORD gave me this vision. I saw two baskets of figs placed in front of the LORD’s Temple in Jerusalem.

2 One basket was filled with fresh, ripe figs, while the other was filled with bad figs that were too rotten to eat.

3 Then the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?”
I replied, “Figs, some very good and some very bad, too rotten to eat.”
4 Then the LORD gave me this message:5 “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: The good figs represent the exiles I sent from Judah to the land of the Babylonians.t6 I will watch over and care for them, and I will bring them back here again. I will build them up and not tear them down. I will plant them and not uproot them.

7 I will give them hearts that recognize me as the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me wholeheartedly.
8 “But the bad figs,” the LORD said, “represent King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, all the people left in Jerusalem, and those who live in Egypt. I will treat them like bad figs, too rotten to eat.9 I will make them an object of horror and a symbol of evil to every nation on earth. They will be disgraced and mocked, taunted and cursed, wherever I scatter them.

10 And I will send war, famine, and disease until they have vanished from the land of Israel, which I gave to them and their ancestors.”

JEREMIAH 24

Jeremiah Has a Vision //of Two Baskets of Figs

1  t The [Lord] spoke to me in a vision after King Nebuchadnezzart of Babylonia had come to Judah and taken King Jehoiachin, t his officials, and all the skilled workers back to Babylonia. In this vision I saw two baskets of figs in front of the [Lord]'s temple.

2 One basket was full of very good figs that ripened early, and the other was full of rotten figs that were not fit to eat.

3 “Jeremiah,” the [Lord] asked, “what do you see?”
“Figs,” I said. “Some are very good, but the others are too rotten to eat.”

4 Then the [Lord] told me to say:
5 People of Judah, the good figs stand for those of you I sent away as exiles to Babylonia, 6 where I am watching over them. Then someday I will bring them back to this land. I will plant them, instead of uprooting them, and I will build them up, rather than tearing them down.

7 I will give them a desire to know me and to be my people. They will want me to be their God, and they will turn back to me with all their heart.
8 The rotten figs stand for King Zedekiaht of Judah, his officials, and all the others who were not taken away to Babylonia, whether they stayed here in Judah or went to live in Egypt. 9 I will punish them with a terrible disaster, and everyone on earth will tremble when they hear about it. I will force the people of Judah to go to foreign countries, where they will be cursed and insulted. 10 War and hunger and disease will strike them, until they finally disappear from the land that I gave them and their ancestors.