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 hath shewed me, and lo, two baskets of figs, appointed before the temple of Jehovah, -- after the removing by Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, of Jeconiah, son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the heads of Judah, and the artizan, and the smith, from Jerusalem, when he bringeth them into Babylon --2 In the one basket [are] figs very good, like the first-ripe figs, and in the other basket [are] figs very bad, that are not eaten for badness.3 And Jehovah saith unto me, `What art thou seeing, Jeremiah?` and I say, `Figs, the good figs [are] very good, and the bad [are] very bad, that are not eaten for badness.`4 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:5 Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Like these good figs so do I acknowledge The removed of Judah -- that I sent from this place, [To] the land of the Chaldeans -- for good.6 And I have set Mine eyes on them for good, And have brought them back to this land, And built them up, and I throw not down, And have planted them, and pluck not up.7 And have given to them a heart to know Me, For I [am] Jehovah, And they have been to Me for a people, And I am to them for God, For they turned back unto Me with all their heart.8 And like the bad figs, that are not eaten for badness, Surely thus said Jehovah: So do I make Zedekiah king of Judah, And his heads, and the remnant of Jerusalem, Who are left in this land, And who are dwelling in the land of Egypt,9 And I have given them for a trembling, For evil -- to all kingdoms of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a reviling, In all the places whither I drive them.10 And I have sent against them the sword, The famine and the pestilence, Till their consumption from off the ground, That I gave to them and to their fathers!