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Jeremiah 24
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Two Baskets of Figs...
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YHWH showed me, and look, there were two baskets of figs set before the Hekal of YHWH, after Nebukadrets-tsar sovereign of Babel had exiled Yekonyahu son of Yehoyaqim, sovereign of Yehudah, and the heads of Yehudah with the craftsmen and smiths, from Yerushalayim, and had brought them to Babel.
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One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe. And the other basket had very spoilt figs which could not be eaten, they were so spoilt.'
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And YHWH said to me, 'What do you see, Yirmeyahu?' And I said, 'Figs, the good figs, very good. And the spoilt, very spoilt, which could not be eaten, they are so spoilt.'
4.
Again the word of YHWH came to me, saying,
5.
'Thus said YHWH, the Elohim of Yisra'el, 'Like these good figs, so do I acknowledge the exiles of Yehudah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans.
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'And I shall set My eyes on them for good, and shall bring them back to this land. And I shall build them and not pull them down, and shall plant them and not pluck them up.
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'And I shall give them a heart to know Me, that I am YHWH. And they shall be My people and I shall be their Elohim, for they shall turn back to Me with all their heart.
8.
'And as the spoilt figs that could not be eaten because they are so spoilt,' for thus said YHWH, 'so do I give up Tsidqiyahu, the sovereign of Yehudah, his heads, the rest of Yerushalayim who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Mitsrayim.
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'And I shall make them a horror to all the reigns of the earth, for evil, to be a reproach and a byword, a mockery and a curse, in all the places to which I drive them.
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'And I shall send the sword, the scarcity of food, and the pestilence among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.''
Jeremiah 24
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Jeremiah 24
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