Jeremiah 24 — Septuagint (LXX)

The LORD showed me a vision: two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the LORD. This was after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had deported Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, along with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metalworkers from Jerusalem, and brought them to Babylon.

One basket had very good figs, like early-ripening figs, and the other basket had very bad figs — so bad they could not be eaten.

Then the LORD said to me, 'What do you see, Jeremiah?' And I said, 'Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad figs are very bad — too rotten to eat.'

Then the word of the LORD came to me:

This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Like these good figs, so I will regard the exiles of Judah — whom I sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans — with favor.

I will set my eyes on them for good and bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.

I will give them a heart to know me — that I am the LORD. They will be my people and I will be their God, for they will return to me with their whole heart.

But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten — this is what the LORD says — so I will treat Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, as well as those living in the land of Egypt.

I will make them a horror and a disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth — a disgrace, a byword, a taunt, and a curse-word in every place where I drive them.

I will send sword, famine, and plague against them until they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.