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

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Bible References

For my

O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah: A wilderness have I been to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Wherefore have My people said, 'We mourned, We come not in again unto Thee.'

For my people are foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons are they, yea, they are not intelligent, Wise are they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.

For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.

An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.

Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.

And He saith, Only My people they are, Sons -- they lie not, and He is to them for a saviour.

And yesterday My people for an enemy doth raise himself up, From the outer garment the honourable ornament ye strip off, From the confident passers by, Ye who are turning back from war.

O My people, what have I done to thee? And what -- have I wearied thee? Testify against Me.

The fountain

The hope of Israel is Jehovah, All forsaking Thee are ashamed, And 'My apostates' in the earth are written, For they have forsaken Jehovah, A fountain of living waters.

Doth snow of Lebanon Cease from the rock of the field? Failed are the cold strange waters that flow?

For with Thee is a fountain of life, In Thy light we see light.

but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst -- to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'

And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, 'If any one doth thirst, let him come unto me and drink;

and He said to me, 'It hath been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely;

And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, going forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb:

Broken cisterns

Hath a nation changed gods? (And they are no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.

Their idols are silver and gold, work of man's hands,

Trust not in princes -- in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance.

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.

and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole is vanity.

Framers of a graven image are all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they are, They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.

-- They are pouring out gold from a bag, And silver on the beam they weigh, They hire a refiner, and he maketh it a god, They fall down, yea, they bow themselves.

Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.

These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;

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and ye -- ye have forsaken Me, and serve other gods, therefore I add not to save you.

and forsaketh Jehovah, God of his fathers, and hath not walked in the way of Jehovah.

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There is the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel.

Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.