English Bible Presentation Sharing - Jeremiah Book, chapter 24, verse 36 in Nlv Version

Jeremiah 24 : 1 (NLV)

After King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took away Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the leaders of Judah, together with the able workmen from Jerusalem, and brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me two baskets of figs set in front of the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 24 : 2 (NLV)

One basket had very good figs, like figs just ready to eat. And the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

Jeremiah 24 : 3 (NLV)

Then the Lord said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten."

Jeremiah 24 : 4 (NLV)

Then the Word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Jeremiah 24 : 5 (NLV)

"This is what the Lord God of Israel says: 'Like these good figs, so will I think of the people of Judah as being good, whom I have sent away from this place into the land of the Babylonians.

Jeremiah 24 : 6 (NLV)

For I will keep My eyes on them for their good, and I will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down. I will plant them and not pull them up by the roots.

Jeremiah 24 : 7 (NLV)

And I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the Lord. They will be My people and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.'

Jeremiah 24 : 8 (NLV)

"But the Lord says, 'Like the bad figs which are so bad they cannot be eaten, so I will give up Zedekiah king of Judah and his captains. And I will give up those left of Jerusalem who stay in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 24 : 9 (NLV)

I will make them a cause of fear and trouble for all the nations of the earth. They will be a shame and a curse and spoken against in all the places where I will make them go.

Jeremiah 24 : 10 (NLV)

And I will send the sword and hunger and disease upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their fathers.' "