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Jer 29:17 Strong Concordance Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635]; Behold, I will send [07971] upon them the sword [02719], the famine [07458], and the pestilence [01698], and will make [05414] them like vile [08182] figs [08384], that cannot be eaten [0398], they are so evil [07455].
  King James Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
vile figs--Hebrew, "horrible," or nauseous, from a root, "to regard with loathing" (see Jer 24:8, Jer 24:10).
 
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10 And I will send [07971] the sword [02719], the famine [07458], and the pestilence [01698], among them, till they be consumed [08552] from off the land [0127] that I gave [05414] unto them and to their fathers [01].
8 And as the evil [07451] figs [08384], which cannot be eaten [0398], they are so evil [07455]; surely thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068], So will I give [05414] Zedekiah [06667] the king [04428] of Judah [03063], and his princes [08269], and the residue [07611] of Jerusalem [03389], that remain [07604] in this land [0776], and them that dwell [03427] in the land [0776] of Egypt [04714]:
18 And I will persecute [07291] them [0310] with the sword [02719], with the famine [07458], and with the pestilence [01698], and will deliver [05414] them to be removed [02189] [02113] to all the kingdoms [04467] of the earth [0776], to be a curse [0423], and an astonishment [08047], and an hissing [08322], and a reproach [02781], among all the nations [01471] whither I have driven [05080] them:
16 Know that thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of the king [04428] that sitteth [03427] upon the throne [03678] of David [01732], and of all the people [05971] that dwelleth [03427] in this city [05892], and of your brethren [0251] that are not gone forth [03318] with you into captivity [01473];