New American Standard Bible 1995

Jeremiah 24:4-10

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

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

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Notes

1. Jeremiah 24:5 Nah 1:7; Zech 13:9 ↩
2. Jeremiah 24:6 Jer 12:15; 29:10; 32:37; Ezek 11:17 ↩
3. Jeremiah 24:6 Jer 31:4; 32:41; 33:7; 42:10 ↩
4. Jeremiah 24:6 Jer 32:41 ↩
5. Jeremiah 24:7 Deut 30:6; Jer 31:33; 32:40; Ezek 11:19; 36:26 ↩
6. Jeremiah 24:7 Is 51:16; Jer 7:23; 30:22; 31:33; 32:38; Ezek 14:11; Zech 8:8; Heb 8:10 ↩
7. Jeremiah 24:7 1 Sam 7:3; Ps 119:2; Jer 29:13 ↩
8. Jeremiah 24:8 Jer 29:17 ↩
9. Jeremiah 24:8 Lit give up ↩
10. Jeremiah 24:8 Jer 39:5; Ezek 12:12, 13 ↩
11. Jeremiah 24:8 Jer 39:9 ↩
12. Jeremiah 24:8 Jer 44:1, 26-30 ↩
13. Jeremiah 24:9 Jer 15:4; 29:18; 34:17 ↩
14. Jeremiah 24:9 1 Kin 9:7; Ps 44:13, 14 ↩
15. Jeremiah 24:9 Is 65:15 ↩
16. Jeremiah 24:10 Is 51:19; Jer 21:9; 27:8; Ezek 5:12-17 ↩

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