From concerns about kings and prophets, we move in rapid succession to the future: Judah’s, Babylon’s, and that of other nations. In his anger—a key theme—God consigns Judah to seventy years of desolation, Babylon to devastation, and all the nations to destruction. Either in a vision or in actuality, Jeremiah sees two baskets of figs. These stand for two major population groups. The date is 597 BC. Judah now has two rulers: one exiled and one reigning. With whom does the future lie? Two baskets of figs, …