Jeremiah 24:3-10

3Then the Lord said to me, “1What 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 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 back to this land; and I will 4build them up and not overthrow them, and I will 5plant them and not uproot them. 7I will also 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 wholeheartedly.

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