Jeremiah 24:1-3, 8

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon captured Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim and king of Judah, his officers, and all the craftsmen and metalworkers of Judah. He took them away from Jerusalem and brought them to Babylon. It was then that the LORD showed me two baskets of figs arranged in front of the Temple of the LORD. One of the baskets had very good figs in it, like figs that ripen early in the season. But the other basket had figs too rotten to eat. The LORD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I answered, “I see figs. The good figs are very good, but the rotten figs are too rotten to eat.”

“ ‘But the bad figs are too rotten to eat.’ So this is what the LORD says: ‘Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and all the people from Jerusalem who are left alive, even those who live in Egypt, will be like those rotten figs.