Yirmeyahu 24 ירמיהו כ״ד

The Lord showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord, after Nevukhadreżżar king of Bavel had carried away captive Yekhonyahu the son of Yehoyaqim the king of Yehuda, and the princes of Yehuda with the carpenters and smiths, from Yerushalayim, and had brought them to Bavel.

One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very poor figs, which could not be eaten, they were so poor.

Then said the Lord to me, What seest thou, Yirmeyahu? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so poor.

Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Thus says the Lord, the God of Yisra᾽el; Like these good figs, so will I favourably regard those that are carried away captive of Yehuda, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Kasdim.

For 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.

And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus says the Lord, So will I make Żidqiyyahu the king of Yehuda, and his princes, and the residue of Yerushalayim, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Miżrayim:

I will make them a horror for evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and curse, in all the places into which I shall drive them.

And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.