Jeremias 24

1 Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before Yahweh’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar 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 Yahweh asked me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?"

I said, "Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so bad that they can’t be eaten."

4 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, 5 "Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, as good. 6 For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up. 7 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.

8 "‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt. 9 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them. 10 I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’"

Ngā Piki Pai me ngā Piki Kino

1 I whakakite a Ihowā ki ahau, nā, e rua ngā kete piki i whakatūria ki mua i te temepara o Ihowā. I muri iho i te whakaraunga a Nepukareha kīngi o Papurōna i a Hekonia tama a Iehoiakimi kīngi o Hūrā, rātou ko ngā rangatira o Hūrā, ko ngā kāmura, ko ngā parakimete i Hiruhārama, i tāna kawenga hoki i a rātou ki Papurōna. 2 He pai rawa ngā piki o tētahi o ngā kete, he rite tonu ki ngā piki mātāmua; ā, he kino rawa ngā piki o tētahi o ngā kete, kāhore e taea te kai, i te kino rawa.

3 Kātahi a Ihowā ka mea ki ahau, "He aha tāu e kite nā, e Heremaia?"

Anō rā ko ahau, "He piki; ko ngā piki pai, he tino pai; ā, ko ngā mea kino, he tino kino, kāhore e taea te kai, i te kino rawa."

4 Nā, ka puta mai te kupu a Ihowā ki ahau, i mea ia: 5 "Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā, a te Atua o Īharaira: ‘Ka pēnei i ngā piki pai nei tōku mōhio ki te hunga o Hūrā i whakaraua nei, i ungā atu nei e ahau i tēnei wāhi ki te whenua o ngā Karari, hei pai mō rātou. 6 Ka whakamau tonu atu hoki ōku kanohi ki a rātou mō te pai, ā, ka whakahokia mai anō rātou e ahau ki tēnei whenua. Ka hangā anō rātou e ahau, e kore hoki e wāhia iho; ka whakatōkia rātou e ahau, e kore anō e hūtia atu. 7 Ka hoatu hoki e ahau he ngākau ki a rātou kia mōhio ki ahau, ko Ihowā ahau; ā, ka waiho rātou hei iwi māku, ā, ko ahau hei Atua mō rātou. Nō te mea ka whakapaua ō rātou ngākau ki te hoki mai ki ahau.

8 " ‘Nā, mō ngā piki kino, e kore nei e taea te kai, i te kino rawa’; he pono ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā: ‘Ka pēnā tāku hoatutanga i a Terekia kīngi o Hūrā, rātou ko āna rangatira, ko ngā mōrehu o Hiruhārama e mahue ki tēnei whenua, e noho ana hoki i te whenua o Īhipa. 9 Ka tino hoatu hoki rātou e ahau kia poipoia haeretia i roto i ngā kīngitanga katoa o te whenua, hei hē mō rātou; hei hahani, hei whakatauki, hei taunu, hei kanga, i ngā wāhi katoa e peia atu ai rātou e ahau. 10 Ka ungā atu anō e ahau te hoari, te hemokai, te mate urutā ki a rātou, kia poto rā anō rātou i runga i te whenua i hoatu e ahau ki a rātou ko ō rātou mātua.’ "