New American Standard Bible 1995

Jeremiah 24:2-7

2One basket had very good figs, like 1first-ripe figs, and the other basket had 2very bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness. 3Then the Lord said to me, “3What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.”

4Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 5“Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard 4as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans. 6For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will 5bring them again to this land; and I will 6build them up and not overthrow them, and I will 7plant them and not pluck them up. 7I will give them a 8heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be 9My people, and I will be their God, for they will 10return to Me with their whole heart.

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1. Jeremiah 24:2 Mic 7:1; Nah 3:12 ↩
2. Jeremiah 24:2 Is 5:4, 7; Jer 29:17 ↩
3. Jeremiah 24:3 Jer 1:11, 13; Amos 8:2; Zech 4:2 ↩
4. Jeremiah 24:5 Nah 1:7; Zech 13:9 ↩
5. Jeremiah 24:6 Jer 12:15; 29:10; 32:37; Ezek 11:17 ↩
6. Jeremiah 24:6 Jer 31:4; 32:41; 33:7; 42:10 ↩
7. Jeremiah 24:6 Jer 32:41 ↩
8. Jeremiah 24:7 Deut 30:6; Jer 31:33; 32:40; Ezek 11:19; 36:26 ↩
9. Jeremiah 24:7 Is 51:16; Jer 7:23; 30:22; 31:33; 32:38; Ezek 14:11; Zech 8:8; Heb 8:10 ↩
10. Jeremiah 24:7 1 Sam 7:3; Ps 119:2; Jer 29:13 ↩

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