Jeremiah 24
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Jehovah showed me, and behold, two containers of figs were set··together before the temple of Jehovah, after Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had exiled Jeconiah◦ the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with◦ the craftsmen and with◦ the smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought· them ·into Babylon.
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One container had very good figs, as the figs that are firstfruits; and one container very bad figs, which could not be eaten for badness.
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Then said Jehovah to▵ me, What seest thou◦, Jeremiah◦? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten for badness.
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And the word of Jehovah was to▵ me, saying,
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Thus says Jehovah, God of Israel: Like◦ these good figs, so will I acknowledge the exiles of Judah, whom I have sent out··of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.
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And I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will return them upon this land; and I will build them, and not break· them ·down; and I will plant them, and not pluck· them ·up.
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And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I◦ am Jehovah; and they shall be to Me for a people, and I▵ will be to them for God, for they shall return to▵ Me with all their heart.
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And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten for badness, surely▵ thus says Jehovah: So will I give Zedekiah◦ the king of Judah, and his princes, and what··is··left of Jerusalem, who are left in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt,
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and I will give· them ·over to turmoil, to evil, into◦ all the kingdoms of the earth, to be for a reproach and for a byword, for a sharp··word and for a reviling, in all the places whither I shall expel them.
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And I will send among◦ them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until they be entirely··consumed from off the ground that I gave to them◦ and to their fathers.