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Jeremiah 24:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

One basket contained very good figs, like early figs,  but the other basket contained very bad figs, so bad that they were inedible.

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For the vineyard of the  Lord of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men  of Judah, the plant he delighted in. He expected justice but saw injustice; he expected righteousness but heard cries of despair.


What more could I have done for my vineyard than I did? Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?


How sad for me! For I am like one who – when the summer fruit has been gathered after the gleaning of the grape harvest   – finds no grape cluster to eat, no early fig, which I crave.


‘You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty?   It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.


I discovered Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your ancestors like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, consecrated themselves to Shame,  , and became abhorrent, like the thing they loved.


This is what the Lord of Armies says: ‘I am about to send sword, famine, and plague against them,  and I will make them like rotten figs that are inedible because they are so bad.


All your fortresses are fig trees with figs that ripened first; when shaken, they fall – right into the mouth of the eater!


The firstfruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, belong to you. Every clean person in your house may eat them.





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