Jeremiah 24:5-7

Contemporary English Version

⁵ People of Judah, the good figs stand for those of you I sent away as exiles to Babylonia, ⁶ where I am watching over them. Then someday I will bring them back to this land. I will plant them, instead of uprooting them, and I will build them up, rather than tearing them down. ⁷ I will give them a desire to know me and to be my people. They will want me to be their God, and they will turn back to me with all their heart.