24:1 Yehovah shewed me two baskets of figs,
lying in front of the temple of Yehovah, after Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon had carried captive Jechonias son of Joakim king of Judah, and the
princes, and the artificers, and the prisoners, and the rich men out of
Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
24:2 The one basket was [full] of very good figs, as the early figs; and the
other basket was [full] of very bad figs, which could not be eaten, for
their badness.
24:3 And Yehovah said to me, What seest thou, Jeremias? and I said, Figs;
the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, for
their badness.
24:4 And the word of Yehovah came to me, saying,
24:5 Thus saith Yehovah, the Elohim of Israel; As these good figs, so will I
acknowledge the Jews that have been carried away captive, whom I have sent
forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good.
24:6 And I will fix mine eyes upon them for good, and I will restore them
into this land for good: and I will build them up, and not pull them down;
and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
24:7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yehovah: and they
shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a Elohim: for they shall turn to
me with all their heart.
24:8 And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, for their badness; thus
saith Yehovah, So will I deliver Sedekias king of Judah, and his nobles, and
the remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left in this land, and he dwellers
in Egypt.
24:9 And I will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the
earth, and they shall be for a reproach, and a proverb, and an [object of]
hatred, and a curse, in every place whither I have driven them out.
24:10 And I will send against them famine, and pestilence, and the sword,
until they are consumed from off the land which I gave them. |
24:1 Yehovah shewed me, and, behold, two
baskets of figs were set before the temple of Yehovah, 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 carpenters and
smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
24:2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe:
and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they
were so bad.
24:3 Then said Yehovah 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.
24:4 Again the word of Yehovah came unto me, saying,
24:5 Thus saith Yehovah, the Elohim of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I
acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent
out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.
24:6 For 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.
24:7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am Yehovah: and they
shall be my people, and I will be their Elohim: for they shall return unto me
with their whole heart.
24:8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely
thus saith Yehovah, So will I give 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:
24:9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the
earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse,
in all places whither I shall drive them.
24:10 And 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. |