Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Jeremiah 24:2 in English Standard Version "One 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." Isa 28:4 and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer: when someone sees it, he swallows it as soon as it is in his hand. Jer 29:17 ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, behold, I am sending on them sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like vile figs that are so rotten they cannot be eaten.