Jeremiah 24

^aThe Lord shewed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord, after that ^bNebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive ^cJeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and ^dthe princes of Judah, with ^dethe carpenters and ^dsmiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. ²One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are ^ffirst ripe: and the other basket had ^ffvery naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. ³Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou, 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 the Lord came unto me, saying, ⁵Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, ^gwhom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans ^hfor their good. ⁶For I will ^ggset mine eyes upon them ^hfor good, and ⁱI will bring them again to this land: and ^klI will build them, and not pull them down; ^kand ^mI will plant them, and not pluck them up. ⁷And ⁿI will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and ^othey shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me ^pwith their whole heart. ⁸And as ^ffthe evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the Lord, So will I give ^qZedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and ^rthem that dwell in the land of Egypt: ⁹and I will deliver them ^uto be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, ^vto be a reproach and ^wa proverb, ^wa taunt and a ^xcurse, in all places whither I shall drive them. ¹⁰And ^yI will send ^zthe sword, ^zthe famine, 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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