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 Jehovah. Was I the desert to Israel? If a land of thick darkness? wherefore said my people, We had dominion, we will come no more to thee?

For my people are foolish, they knew me not; foolish sons are they and they not understanding; wise are they to do evil, and to do good they knew not

for evil ones were found among my people: he will look about as the stooping of fowlers; they set snares, they will take men.

And my people heard not to my voice; and Israel was not inclined to me.

. The ox knew his possessor, and the ass his lord's stall: Israel knew not; my people understood not

For this my people were carried into exile from not knowing; and their honor, men of famine, and their multitude dry with thirst

And he will say, Surely they my people, sons that will not lie: and he will be to them for Saviour.

Aforetime my people for the enemy: he will raise them up from before the garment; ye will put off the wide cloak from those passing by with confidence, turning back the war.

My people, what did I to thee? and in what did I weary thee? answer to me.

The fountain

The hope of Israel, O Jehovah, all forsaking thee shall be ashamed, turning away from me they shall be written in the earth, for they forsook the fountain of the water of life, Jehovah.

Shall the field cut loose from the rock the snow of Lebanon? or shall the cold flowing waters of an inundation be dried up?

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

But whoever should drink of the water which I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water which I shall give him shall be in him a spring of water springing up to eternal life.

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

And he said to me, It has been. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him thirsting of the fountain of the water of life gratuitously.

And he showed me the pure river of the water of life, shining as crystal, going out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Broken cisterns

Did a nation change their gods, and they no gods? and my people changed their glory for what will not profit

Their images are silver and gold, the work of man's hands.

Ye shall not trust in nobles: in the son of man, to him no salvation.

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; vanity of vanities, all vanity.

And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.

And I saw all the labor and all the success of the work, for this the jealousy of a man from his neighbor. Also this is vanity and striving of spirit.

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity.

They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed.

Squandering gold out of the bag and they will weigh silver in the balance, they will hire a founder, and he will make it a god: they will fall down, they will also worship

Wherefore will ye weigh silver without bread? and your labour not for fulness? hearing, hear ye to me, and eat good, and your soul shall delight in fatness.

These are fountains wanting water, clouds impelled by a hurricane; for whom the obscurity of darkness has been kept forever.

General references

And ye forsook me, and ye will serve other gods: wherefore I will not add to save you.

And he will forsake Jehovah the God of his fathers, and he went not in the way of Jehovah.

In the house of Israel I saw something horrible: there the fornications to Ephraim, Israel was defiled.

They watching the vanities of falsehood will forsake their kindness.