Jeremiah 24:1-3

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Jeremiah's vision of figs

24 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took Jeconiah away as his prisoner. Jeconiah was the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah.^[a] Nebuchadnezzar also took all Jeconiah's officers and the workers in Judah who had special skills. He took them all away from Jerusalem to Babylon as his prisoners.

After that happened, the Lord showed me a vision. I saw two baskets of figs. Somebody had put them in front of the Lord's temple. ² One basket had very good figs, like those that are ready to eat early in the year. The other basket had very bad figs. They were too bad to eat.

³ Then the Lord asked me, ‘What do you see, Jeremiah?’

I answered, ‘Figs. The good figs are very good. But the bad figs are so bad that nobody can eat them.’