Two baskets before the temple

1Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of Yahweh, after Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, along with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the smiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

2One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and one basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten because of their badness.

3Then Yahweh 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, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”