Jeremiah 24:1-3

The Good and the Rotten Figs

After ^aNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken away into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, Yahweh showed me: behold, two ^bbaskets of figs set before the temple of Yahweh! 2 One basket had very good figs, like ^afirst-ripe figs, and the other basket had ^bvery rotten figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness. 3 Then Yahweh said to me, “^aWhat do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the rotten figs, very rotten, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.”