Jeremiah 24:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The Lord said to me, ‘What do you see, Jeremiah? ’ I said, ‘Figs! The good figs are very good, but the bad figs are extremely bad, so bad that they are inedible.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said: Figs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten because they are bad. |
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.
The Lord asked me, ‘What do you see, Amos? ’ I replied, ‘A plumb line.’ Then the Lord said, ‘I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will no longer spare them:
He asked me, ‘What do you see, Amos? ’ I replied, ‘A basket of summer fruit.’ , The Lord said to me, ‘The end has come for my people Israel; I will no longer spare them.
He asked me, ‘What do you see? ’ I replied, ‘I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top. The lampstand also has seven lamps at the top with seven spouts for each of the lamps.
‘What do you see? ’ he asked me. ‘I see a flying scroll,’ I replied, ‘nine metres long and four and a half metres wide.’
Formerly in Israel, a man who was going to enquire of God would say, ‘Come, let’s go to the seer,’ for the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.