Jeremiah 24:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ And יהוה  said to me, “What do you see, Yirmeyahu?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good. And the spoilt, very spoilt, which could not be eaten, they are so spoilt.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Then the Lord said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs–the good figs very good, and the bad very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Then said Jehovah unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

Common English Bible

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.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And the Lord said to me: "What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said: "Figs: the good figs are very good, and the bad figs are very bad and cannot be eaten because they are so bad."

Jeremiah 24:3 Cross References

Jeremiah 24:4

Again the word of יהוה  came to me, saying,

Jeremiah 29:17

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.

Amos 7:8

and יהוה  said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb-line.” And יהוה  said, “See, I am setting a plumb-line in the midst of My people Yisra’ĕ

Amos 8:2

And He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” And יהוה  said to me, “The end has come upon my people Yisra’ĕ

Zechariah 4:2

And he said to me, “What do you see?” So I said, “I have looked, and see: a lampstand all of gold with a bowl on top of it, and on the stand seven lamps with seven spouts to the seven lamps.

Zechariah 5:2

And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”

1 Samuel 9:9

Formerly, in Yisra’ĕ