24:1 巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒将犹大王约雅敬的儿子耶哥尼雅和犹大的首领，并工匠，铁匠从耶路撒冷掳去，带到巴比伦。这事以后，耶和华指给我看，有两筐无花果放在耶和华的殿前。

The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that 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.

 

24:2 一筐是极好的无花果，好像是初熟的。一筐是极坏的无花果，坏得不可吃。

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.

 

24:3 于是耶和华问我说，耶利米你看见什么。我说，我看见无花果，好的极好，坏的极坏，坏得不可吃。

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.

 

24:4 耶和华的话临到我说，

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

 

24:5 耶和华以色列的神如此说，被掳去的犹大人，就是我打发离开这地到迦勒底人之地去的，我必看顾他们如这好无花果，使他们得好处。

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.

 

24:6 我要眷顾他们，使他们得好处，领他们归回这地。我也要建立他们，必不拆毁，栽植他们，并不拔出。

For I will set mine 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.

 

24:7 我要赐他们认识我的心，知道我是耶和华。他们要作我的子民，我要作他们的神，因为他们要一心归向我。

And I will give them an 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 unto me with their whole heart.

 

24:8 耶和华如此说，我必将犹大王西底家和他的首领，以及剩在这地耶路撒冷的馀民，并住在埃及地的犹大人都交出来，好像那极坏，坏得不可吃的无花果。

And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; 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:

 

24:9 我必使他们交出来，在天下万国中抛来抛去，遭遇灾祸。在我赶逐他们到的各处成为凌辱，笑谈，讥刺，咒诅。

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.

 

24:10 我必使刀剑，饥荒，瘟疫临到他们，直到他们从我所赐给他们和他们列祖之地灭绝。

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