Jeremiah 24:7-9

Expanded Bible

⁷ I will ·make them want [^Lgive them a heart] to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, because they will return to me with their whole hearts.

⁸ “‘But the bad figs are too rotten to eat.’ So this is what the Lord says: ‘Zedekiah king of Judah [^Cruled 597–586 bc], his officers, and all the people from Jerusalem who are left alive, even those who live in Egypt, will be like those rotten figs. ⁹ I will make those people ·hated [a horror; abhorrent] as an evil people by all the kingdoms of the earth. ·People will make fun of them and tell jokes about them and point fingers at them and curse them [^L…a reproach, a proverb/byword, a taunt, a curse] everywhere I ·scatter [drive] them.