ISV(i)
1 Two Baskets of FigsAfter Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had taken Jehoiakim’s son Jeconiah, king of Judah, along with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the smiths from Jerusalem into exile, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed right in front of the Temple of the LORD.
2 One basket contained very good figs like the first figs that ripen on the tree. The other basket contained very bad figs that were too bad to be eaten.
3 The LORD told me, “What do you see?”
I replied, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad figs are very bad. They’re too bad to be eaten.”
4 Then this message from the LORD came to me: 5 “This is what the LORD God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I’ll regard as good the exiles of Judah whom I sent from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
I replied, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad figs are very bad. They’re too bad to be eaten.”
4 Then this message from the LORD came to me: 5 “This is what the LORD God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I’ll regard as good the exiles of Judah whom I sent from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.