1The Lord shewed me: and behold two baskets full of figs, set before the temple of the Lord: after that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, and his chief men, and the craftsmen, and engravers of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

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Jeremiah 29:2, Jeremiah 29:2, 2 Chronicles 36:10, 2 Chronicles 36:10, 2 Kings 24:12

2One basket had very good figs, like the figs of the first season: and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, because they were bad.

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Isaiah 5:4, Isaiah 5:7, Isaiah 5:4, Isaiah 5:7, Micah 7:1

3And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said: Figs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten because they are bad.

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Amos 8:2, Amos 8:2, Jeremiah 1:11, Jeremiah 1:14, Matthew 25:32

4And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

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5Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Juda, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for their good.

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Zechariah 13:9, Zechariah 13:9, Nahum 1:7, Nahum 1:7, 1 Corinthians 8:3

6And I will set my eyes upon them to be pacified, and I will bring them again into this land: and I will build them up, and not pull them down: and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

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Jeremiah 42:10, Jeremiah 42:10, Jeremiah 29:10, Jeremiah 29:10, Jeremiah 33:7

7And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: because they shall return to me with their whole heart.

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Hebrews 8:10, Hebrews 8:10, Jeremiah 30:22, Jeremiah 30:22, Ezekiel 37:23

8And as the very bad figs, that cannot be eaten, because they are bad: thus saith the Lord: So will I give Sedecias the king of Juda, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that have remained in this city, and that dwell in the land of Egypt.

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Jeremiah 43:1, Jeremiah 44:1, Jeremiah 43:1, Jeremiah 44:1, Jeremiah 24:2

9And I will deliver them up to vexation, and affliction, to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a reproach, and a byword, and a proverb, and to be a curse in all places, to which I have cast them out.

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Deuteronomy 28:37, Jeremiah 29:18, Jeremiah 15:4, Deuteronomy 28:37, Jeremiah 29:18

10And I will send among them the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: till they be consumed out of the land which I gave to them, and their fathers.

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Isaiah 51:19, Isaiah 51:19, Ezekiel 5:12, Ezekiel 5:17, Ezekiel 5:12