Jeremiah 24

1 Jehovah showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Jehovah, after Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the rulers of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

Ostendit mihi Dominus: et ecce duo calathi pleni ficis, positi ante templum Domini, postquam transtulit Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis Iechoniam filium Ioakim regem Iuda, et principes eius, et fabrum, et inclusorem, de Ierusalem, et adduxit eos in Babylonem.

2 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.

Calathus unus ficus bonas habebat nimis, ut solent ficus esse primi temporis: et calathus unus ficus habebat malas nimis, quae comedi non poterant eo quod essent malae.

3 Then Jehovah said to me, What do thou see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs. The good figs, very good, and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten they are so bad.

Et dixit Dominus ad me: Quid tu vides Ieremia? Et dixi: Ficus, ficus bonas, bonas valde: et malas, malas valde: quae comedi non possunt, eo quod sint malae.

4 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

Et factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens:

5 Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

Haec dicit Dominus Deus Israel: Sicut ficus hae bonae: sic cognoscam transmigrationem Iuda, quam emisi de loco isto in Terram Chaldaeorum, in bonum.

6 For I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. And I will build them, and not pull them down, and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

Et ponam oculos meos super eos ad placandum, et reducam eos in terram hanc: et aedificabo eos, et non destruam: et plantabo eos, et non evellam.

7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

Et dabo eis cor ut sciant me, quia ego sum Dominus: et erunt mihi in populum, et ego ero eis in Deum: quia revertentur ad me in toto corde suo.

8 And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten they are so bad, surely thus says Jehovah: So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his rulers, and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

Et sicut ficus pessimae, quae comedi non possunt, eo quod sint malae: haec dicit Dominus, sic dabo Sedechiam regem Iuda, et principes eius, et reliquos de Ierusalem, qui remanserunt in urbe hac, et qui habitant in Terra Aegypti.

9 I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

Et dabo eos in vexationem, afflictionemque omnibus regnis terrae: in opprobrium, et in parabolam, et in proverbium, et in maledictionem in universis locis, ad quae eieci eos.

10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.

Et mittam in eis gladium, et famem, et pestem: donec consumantur de terra, quam dedi eis, et patribus eorum.