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1. The LORD showed me two baskets of figs sitting before his temple. This happened after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon deported Jehoiakim's son, King Jeconiah of Judah. He deported him and the leaders of Judah, along with the craftsmen and metal workers, and took them to Babylon.
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1. The LORD H3068 showed H7200 me, and, behold H2009 , two H8147 baskets H1736 of figs H8384 were set H3259 before H6440 the temple H1964 of the LORD H3068 , after that H310 Nebuchadnezzar H5019 king H4428 of Babylon H894 had carried away captive H1540 H853 Jeconiah H3204 the son H1121 of Jehoiakim H3079 king H4428 of Judah H3063 , and the princes H8269 of Judah H3063 , with H854 the carpenters H2796 and smiths H4525 , from Jerusalem H4480 H3389 , and had brought H935 them to Babylon H894 .
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2. One basket had very good-looking figs in it. They looked like those that had ripened early. The other basket had very bad-looking figs in it, so bad they could not be eaten.
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2. One H259 basket H1731 had very H3966 good H2896 figs H8384 , even like the figs H8384 that are first ripe H1073 : and the other H259 basket H1731 had very H3966 naughty H7451 figs H8384 , which H834 could not H3808 be eaten H398 , they were so bad H4480 H7455 .
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3. The LORD said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I answered, "I see figs. The good ones look very good. But the bad ones look very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten."
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3. Then said H559 the LORD H3068 unto H413 me, What H4100 seest H7200 thou H859 , Jeremiah H3414 ? And I said H559 , Figs H8384 ; the good H2896 figs H8384 , very H3966 good H2896 ; and the evil H7451 , very H3966 evil H7451 , that H834 cannot H3808 be eaten H398 , they are so evil H4480 H7455 .
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4. The LORD said to me,
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4. Again the word H1697 of the LORD H3068 came H1961 unto H413 me, saying H559 ,
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5. "I, the LORD, the God of Israel, say: 'The exiles whom I sent away from here to the land of Babylon are like those good figs. I consider them to be good.
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5. Thus H3541 saith H559 the LORD H3068 , the God H430 of Israel H3478 ; Like these H428 good H2896 figs H8384 , so H3651 will I acknowledge H5234 H853 them that are carried away captive H1546 of Judah H3063 , whom H834 I have sent H7971 out of H4480 this H2088 place H4725 into the land H776 of the Chaldeans H3778 for their good H2896 .
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6. I will look after their welfare and will restore them to this land. There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land and will not uproot them.
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6. For I will set H7760 mine eyes H5869 upon H5921 them for good H2896 , and I will bring them again H7725 to H5921 this H2063 land H776 : and I will build H1129 them , and not H3808 pull them down H2040 ; and I will plant H5193 them , and not H3808 pluck them up H5428 .
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7. I will give them the desire to acknowledge that I am the LORD. I will be their God and they will be my people. For they will wholeheartedly return to me.'
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7. And I will give H5414 them a heart H3820 to know H3045 me, that H3588 I H589 am the LORD H3068 : and they shall be H1961 my people H5971 , and I H595 will be H1961 their God H430 : for H3588 they shall return H7725 unto H413 me with their whole H3605 heart H3820 .
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8. "I, the LORD, also solemnly assert: 'King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the people who remain in Jerusalem or who have gone to live in Egypt are like those bad figs. I consider them to be just like those bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten.
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8. And as the evil H7451 figs H8384 , which H834 cannot H3808 be eaten H398 , they are so evil H4480 H7455 ; surely H3588 thus H3541 saith H559 the LORD H3068 , So H3651 will I give H5414 H853 Zedekiah H6667 the king H4428 of Judah H3063 , and his princes H8269 , and the residue H7611 of Jerusalem H3389 , that remain H7604 in this H2063 land H776 , and them that dwell H3427 in the land H776 of Egypt H4714 :
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9. I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.
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9. And I will deliver H5414 them to be removed H2189 into all H3605 the kingdoms H4467 of the earth H776 for their hurt H7451 , to be a reproach H2781 and a proverb H4912 , a taunt H8148 and a curse H7045 , in all H3605 places H4725 whither H834 H8033 I shall drive H5080 them.
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10. I will bring war, starvation, and disease on them until they are completely destroyed from the land I gave them and their ancestors.'"
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10. And I will send H7971 H853 the sword H2719 , H853 the famine H7458 , and the pestilence H1698 , among them, till H5704 they be consumed H8552 from off H4480 H5921 the land H127 that H834 I gave H5414 unto them and to their fathers H1 .
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