1 The Sign of Two Baskets of Figs The Amos 7:1, 4; 8:1 Lord showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord , after Nebuchadnezzar 2 Kin. 24:12–16;2 Chr. 36:10 king of Babylon had carried away captive Jer. 22:24–28; 29:2 Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah 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; and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten, they were so Is. 5:4, 7; Jer. 29:17 bad.
3 Then the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad.”
4 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
5 “Thus says the Lord , the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans.
6 For I will set My eyes on them for good, and Jer. 12:15; 29:10; Ezek. 11:17 I will bring them back to this land; Jer. 32:41; 33:7; 42:10 I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.
7 Then I will give them (Deut. 30:6; Jer. 32:39; Ezek. 11:19; 36:26, 27) a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord ; and they shall be Is. 51:16; Jer. 30:22; 31:33; 32:38; Ezek. 14:11; Zech. 8:8; (Heb. 8:10) My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me 1 Sam. 7:3; Ps. 119:2; Jer. 29:13 with their whole heart.
8 ‘And as the bad Jer. 29:17 figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’—surely thus says the Lord —‘so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the Jer. 39:9 residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and Jer. 44:1, 26–30 those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
9 I will deliver them to Deut. 28:25, 37;1 Kin. 9:7;2 Chr. 7:20; Jer. 15:4; 29:18; 34:17 trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, Ps. 44:13, 14 to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’ ”