1 巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒把犹大王约雅敬的儿子耶哥尼雅， 和犹大的众领袖、工匠与铁匠从耶路撒冷掳到巴比伦去。这事以后， 耶和华使我看见在耶和华的殿前面摆着两筐无花果。

2 一筐是极好的无花果， 像初熟的无花果； 另一筐是极坏的无花果， 坏到不能吃。

3 于是耶和华问我： "耶利米啊， 你看见什么？"我回答： "我看见无花果。那些好的无花果极好， 坏的却极坏， 坏到不能吃。"

4 耶和华的话临到我， 说：

5 "耶和华以色列的 神这样说： ‘被掳去的犹大人， 就是我打发离开这地方到迦勒底人之地去的， 我必看他们如同这些好的无花果一样， 眷顾他们。

6 我必关注他们， 眷顾他们， 领他们归回这地。我必建立他们， 必不拆毁； 我必栽植他们， 必不拔除。

7 我必赐给他们一颗认识我的心， 知道我就是耶和华； 他们要作我的子民， 我要亲自作他们的 神， 因为他们必一心归向我。’"

8 "但耶和华这样说： ‘我怎样处置那些坏到不能吃的坏无花果， 我也必照样对待犹大王西底家、他的众领袖和耶路撒冷的余民， 不论是余剩在这地的， 或是住在埃及地的。

9 我必使他们成为地上万国所惊恐、所讨厌的； 在我赶逐他们到的各地方， 成为被人羞辱、讥笑、嘲弄、咒诅的对象。

10 我必打发刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫去攻击他们， 直到他们从我赐给他们和他们列祖的土地上都消灭了。’"

1 Jehovah showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Jehovah, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 3 Then said Jehovah unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

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 the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good. 6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. 7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

8 And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus saith Jehovah, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt, 9 I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.