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Jeremiah 24 1YHWH showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set
before the temple of Jehovah, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah,
and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from
Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 2One basket had very
good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had
very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 3Then
said YHWH unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the
good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they
are so bad. 4And the word of YHWH came unto me, saying, 5Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I
regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into
the land of the Chaldeans, for good. 6For I will set mine 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 a heare to know me, that I
am Jehovah: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for
they shall return unto me with their whole heart. 8And as the bad
figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus saith
Jehovah, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes,
and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that
dwell in the land of Egypt, 9I will even give them up to be
tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; 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. Average revision: 0 (ASV Unaltered)
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