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

And you, O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, 'We are free, we will come no more to you'?

"For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are 'wise'--in doing evil! But how to do good they know not."

For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

"But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand."

Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their honored men go hungry, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

For he said, "Surely they are my people, children who will not deal falsely." And he became their Savior.

But lately my people have risen up as an enemy; you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.

"O my people, what have I done to you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!

The fountain

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from youshall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.

Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Sirion? Do the mountain waters run dry, the cold flowing streams?

For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, 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. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Broken cisterns

Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity.

All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh out silver in the scales, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship!

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved.

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

He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.

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

Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.