Yaram'Yahu (Jeremiah) — 24

Good and Bad Figs

1 After King Nabuchadnazzar of Babylon exiled Yahuiachin son of Yahuiakim, king of Yahudah, to Babylun along with the officials of Yahudah and all the craftsmen and artisans, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH gave me this vision. I saw two baskets of figs placed in front of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH’s Temple in Yahushalam. 

2 One basket was filled with fresh, ripe figs, while the other was filled with bad figs that were too rotten to eat.

3 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar to me, “What do you see, Yaramyahu?” I replied, “Figs, some very good and some very bad, too rotten to eat.”

4 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH gave me this message: 

5 “This is what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH  the 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of Yashar'AL Dabar: The good figs represent the exiles I sent from Yahudah to the land of the Babylunians. 

6 I will watch over and care for them, and I will bring them back here again, I will build them up and not tear them down, I will plant them and not uproot them. 

7 I will give them hearts that recognize me as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, They will be my people, and I will be their 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, for they will return to me wholeheartedly.

8 “But the bad figs,” 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH  Dabar, represent King Zadakyahu of Yahudah, his officials, all the people left in Yahushalam, and those who live in Mitzraym, I will treat them like bad figs, too rotten to eat. 

9 I will make them an object of horror and a symbol of evil to every nation on the Arath, they will be put to shame and mocked, taunted and cursed, wherever I scatter them. 

10 And I will send war, famine, and disease until they have vanished from the land of Yashar'AL, which I gave to them and their ancestors.”