Then the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?”

And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad.”

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‘And as the bad (A)figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’—surely thus says the Lord—‘so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the (B)residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and (C)those who dwell in the land of Egypt. I will deliver them to (D)trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, (E)to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they are [a]consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 24:10 destroyed

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