1Jehovah showed me this vision. Behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of Jehovah. This was after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the artificers, and the smiths, from Jerusalem, and had led 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 of the baskets contained very good figs, like those which are first ripe. The other contained very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

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

3And Jehovah said to me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said: Figs; the good figs, exceedingly good; and the bad, exceedingly bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.

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

4Then came the word of Jehovah to me, saying:

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5Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: As these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of Chaldaea for their good;

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

6yea, I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to 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 Jehovah; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for 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 bad figs, which are so bad that they cannot be eaten, saith Jehovah, so will I make Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, those that are left in this land, and those 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 give them up to oppression and affliction in all the kingdoms of the earth; yea, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

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

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

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