Jeremiah 24:2

The Passion Translation

One basket was full of excellent figs that ripened early, and the other was full of rotten figs that were not fit to eat.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:7

For Israel is this vineyard of Yahweh, the Commander of Angel Armies, and the people of Judah are the garden of his delight. When he waited for a crop of justice, he got a harvest of bloodshed! When he waited to reap fairness, he heard only the cries of victims.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could I have done for my vineyard? When I expected it to bear luscious grapes, why did it produce only wild, worthless grapes?

Matthew 5:13

“Your lives are like salt among the people. But if you, like salt, become bland, how can your ‘saltiness’ be restored? Flavorless salt is good for nothing and will be thrown out and trampled on by others.

Jeremiah 29:17

Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, says: “I am now going to send catastrophe to them—war, food shortages, and plague. I will make them like worthless figs, so rotten they cannot be eaten.