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 you the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? why say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto you?

For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are stupid children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have no knowledge.

For among my people are found wicked men: they lie in wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would have none of me.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.

Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Savior.

Even of late my people have risen up as an enemy: you pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by trustingly, as men returning from war.

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

The fountain

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which comes from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.

But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

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

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

And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Broken cisterns

Has a nation changed its gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

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

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

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

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Again, I considered all toil, and every skillful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and grasping after the wind.

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

They that make a graven image are all of them nothing; and their precious things shall not 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, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfies not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.

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

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

I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the harlotry of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

They that regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.