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, ye, the word of Yahweh, A desert, became I unto Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore, have my people said, We have roved about, We will not come in any more unto thee?

Surely, perverse, is my people Me, have they not known, Foolish sons, they are, Yea without understanding, they are: Wise, they are to commit wickedness, But how to do well, they know not!

For there have been found among my people lawless men, - One lieth in wait, as with the stooping of fowlers, They have set a trap, they capture men:

But my people, hearkened not, unto my voice, Even, Israel, inclined not unto me.

An ox knoweth, his owner, And an ass his masters crib, - Israel, doth not know, My people doth not consider.

Therefore, are my people taken away captive before they know it, - And their honourable mean are famished with hunger, And, their multitude, do gape for thirst.

Therefore he said - Surely my people, they are, Sons, they will not act falsely! So he became their saviour.

But, against my people, as an enemy, he setteth himself, from off the robe, they tear away, the cloak, - from such as are passing by with confidence, as men averse from war.

O my people! what have I done to thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? Testify thou against me!

The fountain

Thou hope of Israel Yahweh, All who forsake thee, shall turn pale, - Yea, all who depart from me, in the ground, shall be written, For they have forsaken a fountain of living water, even Yahweh.

Shall the snow of Lebanon, fall from the rock of the field? Or shall waters from afar, deep, overflowing, be dried up?

For, with thee, is the fountain of life, In thy light, we see light.

But, whosoever shall drink of the water which, I, will give him, in nowise shall thirst, unto times age-abiding, - but, the water which I will give him, shall become, within him, a fountain of water, springing up unto life age-abiding.

Now, on the last - the great - day of the feast, Jesus was standing, and he cried aloud, saying - If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink:

And he said unto me - Accomplished! I, am the A, and the Z, the Beginning and the End: I, unto him that is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of life, freely:

And he pointed out to me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, issuing forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,

Broken cisterns

Hath a nation, changed gods, although they were No-gods? Yet my people have changed my glory for that which could not profit!

Their idols, are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men, -

Do not ye trust in nobles, in a son of man who hath no deliverance:

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

When, I, looked upon all my works, which my hands had made, and on my toil, whereon I had toilsomely wrought, then lo! all, was vanity, and feeding on wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Then saw, I, all the toil and all the skill of the work, that, for this, a man was envied of his neighbour, - even this, was vanity, and a feeding on wind.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Proclaimer, all, is vanity.

The fashioners of an image - all of them, are emptiness, And, the things they delight in, cannot profit, - And, their, witnesses, they, neither see nor know, That they may be ashamed.

They who pour gold out of a purse, And who weigh silver in a balance, - Who hire a goldsmith that he may make it into a GOD, They adore, yea they bow down;

Wherefore should ye spend, Money, for that which is not bread? Or your labour, for that which, satisfieth not? Keep on hearkening unto me, And, so eat that which is good, And let your soul take exquisite delight in fatness:

These, are fountains without water, and mists, by a tempest, driven along, - for whom, the gloom of darkness, hath been reserved;

General references

Yet have, ye, forsaken me, and served other gods, - therefore will I not again save you.

and forsook Yahweh the God of his fathers, - and walked not in the way of Yahweh.

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

They who take heed to the vanities of falsehood, do, their own lovingkindness, forsake.