Jeremiah 24:1-7

1After 1Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and metalworkers from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me: behold, two 2baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord. 2One basket had very good figs, like 3first-ripe figs, and the other basket had 4very bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness. 3Then the Lord said to me, “5What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs: the good figs are very good, and the bad ones, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.”

4Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 5“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard 6as 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 7bring them back to this land; and I will 8build them up and not overthrow them, and I will 9plant them and not uproot them. 7I will also give them a 10heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be 11My people, and I will be their God, for they will 12return to Me wholeheartedly.