Baskets of Figs and the Returnees

24 After ^(A)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and metalworkers from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me: behold, two ^(B)baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord. ² One basket had very good figs, like ^(C)first-ripe figs, and the other basket had ^(D)very bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness.

⁸ ‘But like the ^(A)bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness,’ indeed, this is what the Lord says, ‘so will I give up ^(B)Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the ^(C)remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and the ones who live in the land of ^(D)Egypt. ⁹ I will ^(E)make them an object of terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a ^(F)disgrace and a proverb, a taunt and a ^(G)curse in all the places where I will scatter them.