1Yahuah (LORD) shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of Yahuah (LORD), after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Yahudah (Judah), and the princes of Yahudah (Judah), with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
2One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
3Then said Yahuah (LORD) unto me, What see you, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
4Again the word of Yahuah (LORD) came unto me, saying,
5Thus says Yahuah (LORD), the Elohim (God) of Yashar'el (Israel); Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Yahudah (Judah), whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.
6For I will set my 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.
7And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am Yahuah (LORD): and they shall be my people, and I will be their Elohim (God): for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
8And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus says Yahuah (LORD), So will I give Zedekiah the king of Yahudah (Judah), and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
9And I will deliver them to be removed 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.
10And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.