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 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 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 back to this land; and I will 6build them up and not overthrow them, and I will 7plant them and not uproot them. 7I will also 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 wholeheartedly.