Naughty figs

"(Jer. 24:2). "The bad figs may have been such either from having" "decayed, and thus been reduced to a rotten condition, or as" "being the fruit of the sycamore, which contains a bitter juice" "(Tristram, Nat. Hist.). The inferiority of the fruit is here" referred to as an emblem of the rejected Zedekiah and his people.