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?
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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 I have done for my vineyard than I did? Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.