7. I will give them a desire to know me and to be my people. They will want me to be their God, and they will turn back to me with all their heart.
8. The rotten figs stand for King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and all the others who were not taken away to Babylonia, whether they stayed here in Judah or went to live in Egypt.
9. I will punish them with a terrible disaster, and everyone on earth will tremble when they hear about it. I will force the people of Judah to go to foreign countries, where they will be cursed and insulted.
10. War and hunger and disease will strike them, until they finally disappear from the land that I gave them and their ancestors.