Liber Ieremiae, 24

1. ostendit mihi Dominus et ecce duo calathi pleni ficis positi ante templum Domini postquam transtulit Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis Jechoniam filium Joachim regem Juda et principes ejus et fabrum et inclusorem de Hierusalem et adduxit eos in Babylonem

1. The Lord shewed me: and behold two baskets full of figs, set before the temple of the Lord: after that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, and his chief men, and the craftsmen, and engravers of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

2. calathus unus ficus bonas habebat nimis ut solent ficus esse primi temporis et calathus unus ficus habebat malas nimis quæ comedi non poterant eo quod essent malæ

2. One basket had very good figs, like the figs of the first season: and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, because they were bad.

3. et dixit Dominus ad me quid tu vides Hieremia et dixi ficus ficus bonas bonas valde et malas malas valde quæ comedi non possunt eo quod sint malæ

3. And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said: Figs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten because they are bad.

4. et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

4. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

5. hæc dicit Dominus Deus Israël sicut ficus hæ bonæ sic cognoscam transmigrationem Juda quam emisi de loco isto in terram Chaldeorum in bonum

5. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Juda, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land oif the Chaldeans, for their own good.

6. et ponam oculos meos super eos ad placandum et reducam eos in terram hanc et ædificabo eos et non destruam et plantabo eos et non evellam

6. And I will set my eyes upon them to be pacified, and I will bring them again into this land: and I will be their God: and I will build them up, and not pull them down: and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

7. et dabo eis cor ut sciant me quia ego sum Dominus et erunt mihi in populum et ego ero eis in Deum quia revertentur ad me in toto corde suo

7. And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: because they shall return to me with their whole heart.

8. et sicut ficus pessimæ quæ comedi non possunt eo quod sint malæ hæc dicit Dominus sic dabo Sedeciam regem Juda et principes ejus et reliquos de Hierusalem qui remanserunt in urbe hac et qui habitant in terra Ægypti

8. And as the very bad figs, that cannot be eaten, because they are bad: thus saith the Lord: So will I give Sedecias the king of Juda, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that have remained in this city, and that dwell in the land of Egypt.

9. et dabo eos in vexationem adflictionemque omnibus regnis terræ in obprobrium et in parabolam et in proverbium et in maledictionem in universis locis ad quos ejeci eos

9. And I will deliver them up to vexation, and affliction, to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a reproach, and a byword, and a proverb, and to be a curse in all places, to which I have cast them out.

10. et mittam in eis gladium et famem et pestem donec consumantur de terra quam dedi eis et patribus eorum

10. And I will send among them the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: till they be consumed out of the land which I gave to them, and their fathers.