Jer 24 | EngLXX | STEP | The Lord showed me two baskets of figs, lying in front of the temple of the Lord, afterNabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried captive Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda, and the princes,and the artificers, and the prisoners, and the rich men out of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

‏ Jeremiah 24

1 The Lord showed me two baskets of figs, lying in front of the temple of the Lord, afterNabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried captive Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda, and the princes,and the artificers, and the prisoners, and the rich men out of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 2 The one basket wasfull of very good figs, as the early figs; and the other basket wasfull of very bad figs, which could not be eaten, for their badness. 3 And the Lord said to me, What see you, Jeremias? and I said, Figs; the good figs, verygood; and the bad, very bad, which can’t be eaten, for their badness. 4 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 5 Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel; As these good figs, so will I acknowledge the Jewsthat have been carried away captive, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeansfor good. 6 And I will fix mine eyes upon them for good, and I will restore them into this land forgood: and I will build them up, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. 7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be to me apeople, and I will be to them a God: for they shall turn to me with all their heart. 8 And as the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, for their badness; thus says the Lord, So willI deliver Sedekias king of Juda, and his nobles, and the remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left in thisland, and the dwellers in Egypt. 9 And I will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the earth, and they shallbe for a reproach, and a proverb, and anobject of hatred, and a curse, in every place whither I have driven them out. 10 And I will send against them famine, and pestilence, and the sword, until they are consumedfrom off the land which I gave them.