Jeremiah 29:17 meaning and explanation

this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.

Jeremiah 29:17, Berean Standard Bible

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Jeremiah writes from Jerusalem to the exiles in Babylon, and here God turns to the people still living in the ruined city under King Zedekiah. They had assumed the exiles were the rejected ones, but God says the opposite.

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