1After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me this vision: behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord. (王下24:12; 王下24:14; 代下36:10; 耶22:18; 耶22:24; 耶22:28; 耶29:2; 摩8:1; 太1:11)2One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten. (赛28:4; 耶29:17)3And the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”4Then the word of the Lord came to me:5“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. (耶29:20)6I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not pluck them up. (耶1:10; 耶12:15; 耶29:10; 耶31:28; 耶42:10; 摩9:4; 摩9:15)7I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart. (申30:6; 耶29:13; 耶30:22; 耶31:33; 耶32:39; 结11:19; 结36:26; 珥2:12)8“But thus says the Lord: Like the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt. (耶21:1; 耶24:2; 耶29:17)9I will make them a horror[1] to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them. (申28:37; 王下22:19; 代下7:20; 尼2:17; 赛43:28; 耶15:4; 耶25:18; 耶26:6; 耶29:18; 耶29:22; 耶49:13)10And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.” (耶14:12)