“One 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.” “But thus says the Lord: Like the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.”

‭‭- Jeremiah‬ ‭24‬:‭2‬-‭3‬, ‭8‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

- ‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭17‬:‭9‬-‭10‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

- ‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭17‬:‭7‬-‭8‬ ‭ESV‬‬

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“Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.”

- ‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭17‬:‭5‬-‭6‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.”

- Proverbs‬ ‭25‬:‭14‬ ‭ESV‬

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“But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.” ‭

- Psalm‬ ‭81‬:‭16‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.”

- ‭‭Psalm‬ ‭81‬:‭11‬-‭12‬ ‭ESV‬‬