Jeremiah 24:3
Good News Translation
Then the LORD said to me, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" I answered, "Figs. The good ones are very good, and the bad ones are very bad, too bad to eat."

New Revised Standard Version
And the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”

Contemporary English Version
"Jeremiah," the LORD asked, "what do you see?" "Figs," I said. "Some are very good, but the others are too rotten to eat."

New American Bible
Then the LORD said to me: What do you see, Jeremiah? “Figs,” I replied; “the good ones are very good, but the bad ones very bad, so bad they cannot be eaten.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said: Figs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten because they are bad.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said: Figs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten because they are bad.

What.

Jeremiah 1:11-14 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said: I see a rod watching. . . .

1 Samuel 9:9 Now in time past in Israel, when a man went to consult God, he spoke thus: Come, let us go to the seer. For he that is now called a prophet, in time past was called a seer.

Amos 7:8 These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold the Lord was standing upon a plastered wall, and in his hand a mason's trowel.

Amos 8:2 These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit.

Zechariah 4:2 And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, and its lamp upon the top of it: and the seven lights thereof upon it: and seven funnels for the lights that were upon the top thereof.

Zechariah 5:2,5-11 And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I see a volume flying: the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits. . . .

Matthew 25:32,33 And all nations shall be gathered together before him: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats: . . .

Context
The Good and Bad Figs
2One basket had very good figs, like the figs of the first season: and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, because they were bad. 3And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said: Figs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten because they are bad.4And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:…
Cross References
Jeremiah 1:11
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said: I see a rod watching.

Jeremiah 1:13
And the word of the Lord came to me a second time saying: What seest thou? And I said: I see a boiling caldron, and the face thereof from the face of the north.

Jeremiah 24:4
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Jeremiah 29:17
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will send upon them the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and I will make them like bad figs that cannot be eaten, because they are very bad.

Amos 8:2
These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit.

Zechariah 4:2
And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, and its lamp upon the top of it: and the seven lights thereof upon it: and seven funnels for the lights that were upon the top thereof.

Jeremiah 24:2
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