Jeremiah 24:1-3

Common English Bible

Good and bad figs

24 After Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar had deported Judah’s King Jeconiah, King Jehoiakim’s son, and the Judean officials, as well as the craftsmen and metalworkers from Jerusalem to Babylon, the Lord showed me two baskets of figs set in front of the Lord’s temple. ² One basket was filled with fresh and ripe figs; the other basket was filled with rotten figs—too rotten to eat. ³ And the Lord asked me: “What do you see, Jeremiah?”

I replied: “Figs! Some good ones and others very bad—so bad that they can’t be eaten.”