1.上帝向我显现两个篮子无花果，放在上帝殿前。这是在巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒将犹大王耶哥尼雅（他是犹大王约雅敬的儿子）和犹大的一切官员、工匠、铁匠从耶路撒冷带到巴比伦之后。GOD
showed me two baskets of figs, placed in front of the Temple of GOD. This was after King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon had exiled King Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim of Judah, and the officials of Judah, and the artisans and smiths, and had brought them from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2.一个篮子里装着非常好的无花果，像初熟的无花果，另一个篮子里装着非常坏的无花果，坏得不能吃。One basket contained very good figs, like first-ripened figs, and the other basket contained very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.
3.上帝对我说：“耶利米，你看见什么？”我回答说：“看见无花果，有的无花果很好，有的无花果很坏，坏到不能吃。”And GOD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I answered, “Figs—the good ones are very good, and the bad ones very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”
4.然后 神的话临到我说：Then the word of GOD came to me:
5.以色列的神永恒主这样说：我要使你们手中的武器，就是你们在城外与攻围你们的巴比伦王和迦勒底人打仗的武器，转过来，对准你们自己，我要把他们聚集在这城中；Thus said the ETERNAL, the God of Israel: As with these good figs, so will I single out for good the Judean exiles whom I have driven out from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
6.我要恩视他们，领他们归回这地，我要建造他们，不拆毁他们；我要栽植他们，不拔出他们。I will look upon them favorably, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not overthrow them; I will plant them and not uproot them.
7.我将使他们明白，认识我，因为我是上帝。他们将成为我的子民，我也将成为他们的上帝，当他们以全心转向我时。And I will give them the understanding to acknowledge Me, for I am GOD. And they shall be My people and I will be their God, when they turn back to Me with all their heart.
8.就像那些坏无可吃的无花果，——上帝这样说——我也要这样对待犹大王西底家和他的官员，以及剩在这地的耶路撒冷余民，以及那些在埃及地所住的人：And like the bad figs, which are so bad that they cannot be eaten—thus said GOD—so will I treat King Zedekiah of Judah and his officials and the remnant of Jerusalem that is left in this land, and those who are living in the land of Egypt:
9.我要使他们在天下所有的国中成为令人惊骇的对象，成为可憎和譬喻，成为讥笑和咒骂，在我所赶他们到的所有地方。I will make them a horror—an evil—to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and a proverb, a byword and a curse in all the places to which I banish them.
10.我要派遣刀剑、饥荒和瘟疫攻击他们，直到他们从我赐给他们和他们祖先的土地上灭绝。I will send the sword, famine, and pestilence against them until they are exterminated from the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.