1. The Lord showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before the Lord’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
2. One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
3. Then the Lord asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?”I said, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so bad that can’t be eaten.”