“What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I waited for the yielding of grapes, did it yield rotten ones?
Jeremiah 24:2 - The Scriptures 1998 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe. And the other basket had very spoilt figs which could not be eaten, they were so spoilt.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible One basket was filled with fresh and ripe figs; the other basket was filled with rotten figs—too rotten to eat. Catholic Public Domain Version One basket had exceedingly good figs, like the figs usually found early in the season, and the other basket had exceedingly bad figs, which could not be eaten because they were so bad. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version One basket had very good figs, like the figs of the first season: and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, because they were bad. |
“What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I waited for the yielding of grapes, did it yield rotten ones?
thus said יהוה of hosts, ‘See, I am sending on them the sword, the scarcity of food, and the pestilence. And I shall make them like spoilt figs, so spoilt as to be uneatable.
Woe to me! For I am as gatherings of summer fruit, as gleanings of the grape harvest. There is no cluster to eat. My being has desired the first-ripe fruit.
All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs, when shaken they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.
“The first-fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to יהוה, are yours. Everyone who is clean in your house eats it.
“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt becomes tasteless, how shall it be seasoned? For it is no longer of any use but to be thrown out and to be trodden down by men.