New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Jeremiah 23
36 For you will no longer remember the oracle of the Lord, because every man’s own word will become the oracle, and you have perverted the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.
37 Thus you will say to that prophet, ’What has the Lord answered you?’ and, ’What has the Lord spoken?’
38 For if you say, ’The oracle of the Lord!’ surely thus says the Lord, ’Because you said this word, "The oracle of the Lord!" I have also sent to you, saying, "You shall not say, ’The oracle of the Lord!’"’
39 Therefore behold, I will surely forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers.
40 I will put an everlasting reproach on you and an everlasting humiliation which will not be forgotten."
Jeremiah 24
1 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!
2 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.
3 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."
4 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
5 "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.
6 For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.
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