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Jeremiah 24 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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and I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, for their badness.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; As these good figs, so will I acknowledge the Jews that have been carried away captive, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And I will fix mine eyes upon them for good, and I will restore them into this land for good: and I will build them up, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God: for they shall turn to me with all their heart.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, for their badness; thus saith the Lord, So will I deliver Sedekias king of Juda, and his nobles, and the remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left in this land, and the dwellers in Egypt. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And I will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the earth, and they shall be for a reproach, and a proverb, and an <i>object of</i> hatred, and a curse, in every place whither I have driven them out. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And I will send against them famine, and pestilence, and the sword, until they are consumed from off the land which I gave them.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/23.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 23"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 23" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/25.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 25"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 25" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>