Jeremiah 24:2-3
24:2 One basket had very good-looking figs in it. They looked like those that had ripened early.
The other basket had very bad-looking figs in it, so bad they could not be eaten.
24:3 The
Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I answered, “I see figs. The good ones look very good. But the bad ones look very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”
Jeremiah 24:8
24:8 “I, the Lord, also solemnly assert: ‘King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the people who remain in Jerusalem or who have gone to live in Egypt are like those bad figs. I consider them to be just like those bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten.
Jeremiah 29:17
29:17 The
Lord who rules over all
says, ‘I will bring war,
starvation, and disease on them. I will treat them like figs that are so rotten
they cannot be eaten.