Jeremiah 24:2 Cross References - Rotherham

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.

⁴ What could have been done further, to my vineyard, That I had not done in it? Why then––When I had waited that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild, grapes?

⁷ Surely, the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts, is the house of Israel, And, the men of Judah, are the plantation in which he dearly delighted,––And he waited, For, equity, but lo! murderous iniquity, For the rule of right, but lo! the cry of the wronged.

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. ⁸ And, like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, for badness, Surely, thus, saith Yahweh––so, will I deliver up Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them who are dwelling in the land of Egypt; ⁹ yea I will deliver them up, as a terror of calamity, to all the kingdoms of the earth,––as a reproach, and as a byword, as a mockery and as a contempt, in every place whither I will drive them; ¹⁰ and I will send among them, sword, famine and pestilence,––until they are consumed from off the soil, which I gave to them, and to their fathers.

¹⁷ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Behold me! sending upon them, sword, famine, and pestilence,––So will I make them like the horrid figs, that cannot be eaten for badness;

² Son of man, What can the vine–tree be more than any other tree,––any, branch, which hath been found among the trees of the forest? ³ Shall there be taken from it wood, to be made into any work? Or will men take therefrom a peg, to hang thereon any vessel? ⁴ Lo! into the fire, it is given up for fuel,––The two ends thereof, doth the fire devour, And, the middle thereof, is charred, Is it fit for any work? ⁵ Lo! while it was yet whole, it could not be made into any work,––how much less, when, the fire, hath devoured it, and it is charred, can it still be made into any work?

¹⁰ Like grapes in the desert, found I Israel, like the first–ripe in the fig–tree when it is young, saw I your fathers,––they, entered Baal–peor, and devoted themselves to the Shameful Thing, Then became their abominations like their lusts.

¹ Alas for me! for I am become as gatherings of summer fruit, as gleaning–grapes in harvest, there is no cluster to eat, the first ripe fruit, my soul, craved.

¹² But ye are profaning me,–– in that ye say, As for the table of the Lord, polluted it is, and, as for his produce, contemptible is his food. ¹³ And ye have said, Lo! what a weariness! And ye have snuffed at Me, saith Yahweh of hosts, and have brought in the torn and the lame and the sick, thus have ye brought the present,–– Could I accept it at your hand? saith Yahweh. ¹⁴ But accursed is he that defraudeth, who, when there is in his flock a male, yet voweth and sacrificeth a corrupt thing to the Lord, for, a great king, am I, saith Yahweh of hosts, and, my Name, is revered among the nations.

¹³ Ye, are the salt of the earth; but, if the salt become tasteless, wherewith shall it be salted? it is good, for nothing, any more, save, being cast out, to be trampled on by men.