NASB
"One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness."
— Jeremiah 24:2, NASB
“One basket had very good figs, like the figs which first come to growth: and the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they were of no use for food.”
After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me: behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD!
One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness.
Then the LORD said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness."
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
"Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.