But what about that basket of bad figs in Jeremiah’s vision? Jeremiah now rivets his attention on Jehovah’s words found at Jeremiah chapter 24, verses 8 to 10: “Like the bad figs that cannot be eaten for badness, this in fact is what Jehovah has said: ‘ So I shall give Zedekiah the king of Judah and his princes and the remnant of Jerusalem who are remaining over in this land and those who are dwelling in the land of Egypt ​ — I will also give them over for quaking, for calamity, in all the kingdoms of the earth, for reproach and for a proverbial saying, for a taunt and for a malediction, in all the places to which I shall disperse them.
ارمیا اکنون توجه‌اش را به کلام یَهُوَه متمرکز می‌کند که آن را در کتاب ارمیا ،‏ باب ۲۴ ،‏ آیه‌های ۸ تا ۱۰ می‌توان یافت :‏ «‏ خداوند چنین می‌گوید مثل انجیرهای بد که چنان بد است که نمیتوان خورد البته همچنان صِدقیّا پادشاه یهودا و رؤسای او و بقیهٔ اورشلیم را که در این زمین باقی مانده‌اند و آنانیرا که در مصر ساکن‌اند تسلیم خواهم نمود .‏