(KJV) Jeremiah 24¹

⥃The Good and Bad Figs

[1] The Lord² shewed me, and, behold, two³ baskets of figs [were] set before the temple of the Lord, after⁴ that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths⁵, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.⁶ [2] One basket⁷ [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs [that are] first ripe⁸: and the other basket [had] very naughty⁹ figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad¹⁰. [3] Then said the Lord unto me, What¹¹ seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

[4] [¶]Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, [5] Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge¹² them that are carried away captive¹³ of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for [their] good. [6] For I will¹⁴ set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring¹⁵ them again to this land: and I will build¹⁶ them, and not pull [them] down; and I will plant them, and not pluck [them] up. [7] And I will give¹⁷ them an heart to know me, that I [am] the Lord: and they¹⁸ shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they¹⁹ shall return unto me with their whole heart.

[8] [¶]And as²⁰ the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the Lord, So will²¹ I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them²² that dwell in the land of Egypt: [9] And I will deliver them to be removed²³ into all the kingdoms of the earth for [their] hurt, [to be] a²⁴ reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse²⁵, in all places whither I shall drive them. [10] And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers. ²⁶