2. One basket had very good figs, like the figs first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten for badness.
3. And Jehovah said unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs: the good figs very good; and the bad very bad, which cannot be eaten for badness.
4. And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
5. Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard for good them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans;