Jeremiah 24:3-10

3Then the Lord said to me, “1What 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 2as 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 3bring them again to this land; and I will 4build them up and not overthrow them, and I will 5plant them and not pluck them up. 7I will give them a 6heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be 7My people, and I will be their God, for they will 8return to Me with their whole heart.

8‘But like the 9bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness--indeed, thus says the Lord--so I will 10abandon 11Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the 12remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell in the land of 13Egypt. 9I will 14make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a 15reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a 16curse in all places where I will scatter them. 10I will send the 17sword, the famine and the pestilence upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’”