3. “Jeremiah,” the Lord asked, “what do you see?”“Figs,” I said. “Some are very good, but the others are too rotten to eat.”
4. Then the Lord told me to say:
5. People of Judah, the good figs stand for those of you I sent away as exiles to Babylonia,
6. where I am watching over them. Then some day I will bring them back to this land. I will plant them, instead of uprooting them, and I will build them up, rather than tearing them down.
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.