Parable of the Baskets of Figs

24 Adonai showed me, all of a sudden, there were two baskets of figs set before the Temple of Adonai. It was after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had taken away into exile Jeconiah son of King Jehoiakim of Judah and the princes of Judah, along with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

² One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe, but the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. ³ Then Adonai said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?”

So I said, “Figs—the good figs are very good, but the bad are very bad, and cannot be eaten, they are so bad.”