Jeremiah 24

1 The LORD showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs [were] set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters 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, [even] like the figs [that are] first ripe: and the other basket [had] very poor 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 said the LORD to 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.

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 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Et factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens:

5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for [their] 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] the LORD: 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 saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that 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 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for [their] hurt, [to be] a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither 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 are 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.