¹The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

¹Videti mi je dal GOSPOD – in glej: dva koša smokev, postavljena pred tempelj GOSPODOV, potem ko je bil Nebukadnezar, kralj babilonski, odpeljal v ujetništvo Jekonija, sina Jojakima, kralja Judovega, in kneze Judove in rokodelce in kovače iz Jeruzalema in jih pripeljal v Babilon.

²One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

²V enem košu so bile prav dobre smokve, kakršne so zgodnje smokve, v košu drugem pa so bile smokve prav slabe, ki jih ni moči jesti, tako so bile slabe.

³Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

³In GOSPOD mi reče: Kaj vidiš Jeremija? In rečem: Smokve; dobre smokve so prav dobre, slabe pa so prav slabe, da jih ni moči jesti, tako so slabe.

⁴Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

⁴Tedaj pride beseda GOSPODOVA k meni, govoreč:

⁵Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.

⁵Tako pravi GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov: Kakor tiste dobre smokve, tako bom spoznal ujetnike Judove, ki sem jih poslal iz tega kraja v deželo Kaldejsko, na dobro.

⁶For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

⁶Ker obrniti hočem svoje oči nanje v njih dobro, in jih nazaj pripeljem v to deželo, in jih bom zidal in ne podiral, in sadil jih bom, ne roval.

⁷And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

⁷In dal jim bom srce, da me spoznajo, da sem GOSPOD, in bodo mi ljudstvo in jaz jim bodem Bog, ko se povrnejo k meni iz vsega srca svojega.

⁸And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

⁸Kakor pa tiste slabe smokve, ki jih ni moči jesti, ker so tako slabe: res, tako pravi GOSPOD, tako izpostavim Zedekija, kralja Judovega, in kneze njegove in ostanek Jeruzalemov, kar jih je ostalo v tej deželi in kar jih prebiva v deželi Egiptovski.

⁹And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

⁹Izpostavim jih, pravim, pestenju, nesreči po vseh kraljestvih zemlje, da bodo v sramoto in pregovor, v zasmehovanje in preklinjane v vseh krajih, kamor jih odženem.In pošljem nadnje meč, lakoto in kugo, dokler ne poginejo iz dežele, ki sem jo bil dal njim in njih očetom.

¹⁰And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

¹⁰In pošljem nadnje meč, lakoto in kugo, dokler ne poginejo iz dežele, ki sem jo bil dal njim in njih očetom.