Jeremiah 2:13

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Summary

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

For my

The fountain

Revelation 22:1

Broken cisterns

General references

Bible References

For my

O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.

Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.

As for you, you have become haters of those who were at peace with you: you take the clothing of those who go by without fear, and make them prisoners of war.

O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.

The fountain

O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

Will the white snow go away from the top of Sirion? will the cold waters flowing from the mountains become dry?

For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light.

But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.

On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him.

And he said to me, It is done. I am the First and the Last, the start and the end. I will freely give of the fountain of the water of life to him who is in need.

And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb,

Broken cisterns

Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.

Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.

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But, for all this, you have given me up and have been servants to other gods: so I will be your saviour no longer.

Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways.

In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;

The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.