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Jeremiah 24:3-5
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Jeremiah 24:3-5
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
3 And the Lord said to me, ‘What do you see, Jeremiah?’ I said, ‘Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.’
4 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 5 Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
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Jeremiah 24:3-5
New International Version
Jeremiah 24:3-5
New International Version
3 Then the Lord asked me, “What do you see,(A) Jeremiah?”
“Figs,” I answered. “The good ones are very good, but the bad ones are so bad they cannot be eaten.”
4 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 5 “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I sent(B) away from this place to the land of the Babylonians.[a]
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- Jeremiah 24:5 Or Chaldeans
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