¹Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Yahweh, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon carried into exile Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the officials of Judah, and the engravers, and the smiths from Jerusalem, and brought them to Babylon.

²One basket had very good figs, like early figs, and the other basket had very bad figs, which cannot be eaten for badness.

³And Yahweh said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad ones are very bad, such as cannot be eaten for badness.

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

⁵Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 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, for good.

⁶And I will set my eye upon them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them up and not tear them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.

⁷And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh; and they will be a people to me, and I will be God to them, for they will return to me with all their heart.

⁸And like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten for badness—for thus says Yahweh—so I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

⁹And I will make them a terror, an evil, to all the kingdoms of the land, a reproach, a proverb, a taunt, and a curse, in all the places where I thrust them away.

¹⁰And I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until they are finished from off the ground that I gave to them and to their fathers.