1 ✡24:1: 2Kings 24:12-16; 2Rec 36:10One time, Da One In Charge show me two basket figs dat somebody put in front da Temple Fo Da One In Charge. (Az was afta King Nebukadnezzar from Babylon wen make Koniah his prisona an bring um from Jerusalem to Babylon. Koniah, da Judah king an Jehoiakim boy. Nebukadnezzar make da leada guys fo da Judah peopo prisonas an take dem away too. An he do da same ting wit da guys dat smart fo make fancy kine stuff an wit da military engineer guys.) 2 One basket get real good kine fig, da kine dat come ripe early. Da odda basket get rotten figs, real rotten so nobody eat um.

3 Den Da One In Charge tell me, “Eh Jeremiah! Wat you see?”

I tell, “Figs. Da good figs stay real good, but da rotten figs stay real bad, nobody can eat um.”

4 Den Da One In Charge give me dis message: 5 “Me, Da One In Charge, da God fo da Israel peopo, an dis wat I tell: ‘Da prisona guys from Judah, dey jalike da good figs. Dey da ones I wen sen away from dis place to da Babylon land. 6 I goin take kea dem fo make shua good kine tings happen to dem, an I goin bring dem back to dis land. Jalike I goin build dem up one mo time inside dis land an no bus um up. Jalike I goin plant dem fo make um come solid, an I no goin pull um up outa da groun jalike plants. 7 I goin give dem da kine heart fo know fo shua who me. Dey goin know dat me, dea God, Da One In Charge! Dey goin come my peopo, an I goin come dea God. Cuz dey goin go all out fo come back by me.’

8 “But jalike da rotten figs, dat no can eat um, az how I goin make to Zedekiah, da king fo Judah, his leada guys, an da odda Jerusalem peopo dat stay alive still yet, no matta dey stay inside dis land o go Egypt side. 9 I goin make to dem jalike peopo make to rotten figs, so all da odda kings inside da world an dea peopo goin tink horraz bout dem. Dey goin talk bout dem jalike da rotten fig nobody like. Dey goin make fun a dem. An dey goin use dea name fo put kahuna on top peopo wea eva I sen dem. 10 I goin make war come to dem, I goin take away dea food, an goin sen one bad kine sick fo hurt dem till dey all come wipe out from da land dat I wen give to dem an dea ancesta guys.”