Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.
Salt therefore is good: but if even the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned?It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill: men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus saith Jehovah, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt,