³ Then Yahweh said to me, “^(A)What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the rotten figs, very rotten, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.”

⁸ ‘But like the ^(A)rotten figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness—indeed, thus says Yahweh—so I will give over ^(B)Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials and the ^(C)remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who inhabit the land of ^(D)Egypt. ⁹ I will ^(E)give them over to be a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a ^(F)reproach and a proverb, a byword and a ^(G)curse in all places where I will banish them. ¹⁰ I will send the ^(H)sword, the famine, and the pestilence upon them until they come to an end from being upon the land which I gave to them and their fathers.’”