Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
The fountain
Broken cisterns
Bible References
The fountain
John 4:14
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him, shall never thirst. But the water that I will give him, shall be in him a fountain of water springing up in order to eternal life.
John 7:37
On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.
Revelation 21:6
And he said to me: It is done; I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him that thirsts, I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Revelation 22:1
And he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, coming out from the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Broken cisterns
2 Peter 2:17
These men are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, for whom the gloom of darkness is reserved forever.