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, mark ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore say my people, We have dominion; we will come no more unto thee?

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no intelligence; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.

But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence.

Therefore my people are led away captive from lack of knowledge, and their nobility die of famine, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

And he said, They are indeed my people, children that will not lie; and he became their Saviour.

But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip off the mantle with the garment from them that pass by securely, that are averse from war.

O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.

The fountain

Thou hope of Israel, Jehovah! all that forsake thee shall be ashamed. They that depart from me shall be written in the earth; because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.

Shall the snow of Lebanon cease from the rock of the field? Shall the cool flowing waters coming from afar be dried up?

For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

but whosoever drinks of the water which I shall give him shall never thirst for ever, but the water which I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.

In the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.

And he said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that thirsts of the fountain of the water of life freely.

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

Broken cisterns

Hath a nation changed its gods? and they are no gods; but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands:

Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities! all is vanity.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that it had cost me to do them; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man's jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher: all is vanity.

They that form a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance; they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved for ever.

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Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will deliver you no more.

and he forsook Jehovah the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of Jehovah.

In the house of Israel have I seen a horrible thing: the whoredom of Ephraim is there; Israel is defiled.

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.