Jeremija 24

1 Gospod mi je pokazal in glej, dve košari fig sta bili postavljeni pred Gospodovim templjem, potem ko je babilonski kralj Nebukadnezar odvedel ujetništvo Jehoníja, sina Jojakíma, Judovega kralja in Judove prince s tesarji in kovači iz Jeruzalema in jih privedel v Babilon.

The LORD showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before the LORD’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

2 Ena košara je imela zelo dobre fige, celó kakor fige, ki so najprej zrele, druga košara pa je imela zelo nespodobne fige, ki se niso mogle jesti, tako slabe so bile.

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.

3 Potem mi je Gospod rekel: »Kaj vidiš Jeremija?« Rekel sem: »Fige, dobre fige, zelo dobre in slabe ter zelo slabe, ki ne morejo biti pojedene, tako slabe so.«

Then the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”

4 Ponovno je prišla k meni Gospodova beseda, rekoč:

The LORD’s word came to me, saying,

5 »Tako govori Gospod, Izraelov Bog: ›Podobno kot te dobre fige, tako bom priznal tiste, ki so odvedeni v ujetništvo od Juda, ki sem jih poslal ven iz tega kraja, v deželo Kaldejcev, v njihovo dobro.

“The LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘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, as good.

6 Kajti svoje oči bom naravnal nanje v dobro in jih ponovno privedel v to deželo. Pozidal jih bom in jih ne podiral, jih sadil in ne ruval.

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

7 Dal jim bom srce, da me spoznajo, da jaz sem Gospod. In oni bodo moje ljudstvo in jaz bom njihov Bog, kajti k meni se bodo vrnili s svojim celotnim srcem.

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.

8 Kakor slabe fige, ki se ne morejo jesti, tako so slabe; ‹ zagotovo tako govori Gospod: ›Tako bom izročil Judovega kralja Sedekíja, njegove prince in Jeruzalemov preostanek, ki preostane v tej deželi in tiste, ki prebivajo v egiptovski deželi.

“‘As the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely the LORD says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

9 Izročil jih bom, da bodo odstranjeni v vsa zemeljska kraljestva, v njihovo škodo, da bodo graja in pregovor, zbadljivka in prekletstvo, na vseh krajih, kamor jih bom pognal.

I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth 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 will drive them.

10 Mednje bom poslal meč, lakoto in kužno bolezen, dokler ne bodo použiti iz dežele, ki sem jo dal njim in njihovim očetom.‹«

I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’”