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It is day 241. We're reading today from Jeremiah chapter 24 and 25, also Daniel 6 and 7, and Proverbs chapter 16 versus 5 through 8. As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is the revised standard version, the second Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in the year. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe and receiving daily episodes and daily updates and all the things you need for every day. Not all the things, but the things when it comes to the Bible in the year. It's day 241. As I said, we are reading from Jeremiah chapter 24 and 25,

Daniel chapter 6 and chapter 7, Proverbs chapter 16, verses 5 through 8. The book of the prophet

Jeremiah, chapter 24, two baskets, good and bad figs. After Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,

had taken into exile from Jerusalem,

Chechnaya, the son of Jeholyakim, king of Judah, together with the princes of Judah,

the craftsmen and the smiths, and had brought them to Babylon. The Lord showed me this vision.

Behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord. One basket had very good figs,

like first ripe figs. But the other basket had very good figs, like first ripe figs,

but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten. And the Lord said

to me, what do you see, Jeremiah? I said, figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs,

very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten. Then the word of the Lord came to me. Thus says the Lord,

the God of Israel, like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have

sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will

bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down. I will plant them and not uproot them. I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart. But thus says the Lord, like the bad figs, which are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat Zedekiah,

the king of Judah, his princes, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell

in the land of Egypt. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth to be a reproach,

a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them. And I will send

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