God shows Jeremiah two baskets of figs, one basket is full of fresh juicy figs, and the other are shriveled and rotten. The people of Judah who go into exile in babylon, and return to God with full hearts, will one day come back and reestablish their kingdom in Jerusalem under God. The one's who still loook to themselves, and to other nations for help and refuse to mend their ways, will end up like the shriveled figs.