Jeremiah 24:6
And I will set my eyes upon them to be pacified, and I will bring them again into this land: and I will be their God: and I will build them up, and not pull them down: and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Deuteronomy 11:12And the Lord thy God doth always visit it, and his eyes are on it from the beginning of the year unto the end thereof.
Nehemiah 5:19Remember me, O my God, for good according to all that I have done for this people.
Psalms 34:15Turn away from evil and do good: seek after peace and pursue it.
Isaiah 60:21And thy people shall be all just, they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hand to glorify me.
Jeremiah 12:15And when I shall have plucked them out, I will return, and have mercy on them: and I will bring them back, every man to his inheritance, and every man to his land.
Jeremiah 21:10For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the Lord: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 24:2-10
Vision of the Good and Bad Figs; Promises and Threatenings. ( b. c. 599.) 1 The Lord shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord , after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could… Read the whole commentary →