Jeremiah 24:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.”
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“One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“In the one basket <FI>are<Fi> figs very good, like the first-ripe figs, and in the other basket <FI>are<Fi> figs very bad, that are not eaten for badness.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 24:2 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 18:13The firstfruits of everything in their land that they bring to the LORD will belong to you. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat them.
- Isaiah 5:4What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?
- Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.
- Jeremiah 24:5“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
- Jeremiah 29:17this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.
- Ezekiel 15:2“Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest?
- Hosea 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
- Micah 7:1Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.
- Malachi 1:12“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’
- Matthew 5:13You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
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