24:023:038 But since ye say, The burden of the lord;
therefore thus saith
the
lord; Because ye say this word, The burden of
the lord,
and
I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The
burden
of
the lord;
24:023:039 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly
forget you, and I
will
forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your
fathers,
and cast you out of my presence:
24:023:040 And I will bring an everlasting reproach
upon you, and a
perpetual
shame, which shall not be forgotten.
24:024:001 The lord shewed me, and, behold, two
baskets of figs were set
before
the temple of the lord, after that Nebuchadrezzar
king
of
Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of
Jehoiakim
king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the
carpenters
and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to
Babylon.
24:024:002 One basket had very good figs, even like
the figs that are
first
ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs,
which
could
not be eaten, they were so bad.
24:024:003 Then said the lord unto me, What seest
thou, Jeremiah? And I
said,
Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very
evil,
that
cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
24:024:004 Again the word of the lord came unto me, saying,
24:024:005 Thus saith the lord, the God of Israel;
Like these good figs,
so
will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive
of
Judah,
whom I have sent out of this place into the land of
the
Chaldeans
for their good.
24:024:006 For I will set mine eyes upon them for
good, and I will bring
them
again to this land: and I will build them, and
not pull
them
down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
24:024:007 And I will give them an heart to know me,
that I am the lord:
and
they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
for they
shall
return unto me with their whole heart.
24:024:008 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten,
they are so evil;
surely
thus saith the lord, So will I give Zedekiah the
king
of
Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem,
that
remain
in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
24:024:009 And I will deliver them to be removed into
all the kingdoms of
the
earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb,
a
taunt
and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
24:024:010 And I will send the sword, the famine,
and the pestilence,
among
them, till they be consumed from off the land that
I
gave
unto them and to their fathers.


