Jeremiah 24:3-5

New American Standard Bible

³ Then the Lord said to me, “^(A)What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs: the good figs are very good, and the bad ones, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.”

⁴ Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ⁵ “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard ^(B)as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.