Rotherham(i)
1 Yahweh shewed, me, and lo! two baskets of figs, which had been set before the temple of Yahweh,––after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive, Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the carpenters and the smiths, out of Jerusalem, and had brought them into Babylon:––
2 the one basket, was of very good figs, like the first–ripe, figs; and, the other basket, was of very bad figs, which could not be eaten, for badness.
3 Then said Yahweh unto me,––What canst thou, see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs: the good figs, very, good; and, the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, for badness.
4 Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:
5 Thus, saith Yahweh God of Israel, Like these, good, figs, so, will I regard them of Judah who are carried into captivity, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
6 Therefore will I set mine eye upon them, for good, and will bring them back upon this land,––and will build them up, and not pull them down, and will plant them, and not root them up;
7 and will give them a heart, to know, me, that, I, am Yahweh, So shall they become my, people, And, I, will become their, God; for they will return unto me with all their heart.