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, you see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a desert to Israel? Or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We roam about freely, we will not come again to you'?

"For my people [are] foolish, they have not known me. They [are] foolish children, and they do not have insight. They [are] skillful at doing evil, and they do not know [how] to do good."

For wicked people are found among my people, they lie in wait like the hiding of fowlers, they set up a trap, they catch humans.

But my people did not listen to my voice, and Israel did not yield to me.

An ox knows its owner and a donkey the manger of its master. Israel does not know; my people do not understand.

Therefore my people will go into exile without knowledge, [and] their nobles [will be] men of hunger, and their multitude [is] parched [with] thirst.

And he said, "Surely my people [are] children; they will not break faith." And he became a Savior to them.

But {recently} my people have risen up as an enemy; from before the cloak you strip off the robe from those passing by [in] confidence, returning [from] war.

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

The fountain

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all [those who] forsake you will be put to shame, and [those who] turn aside from you in the earth will be recorded, for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, Yahweh.

Does the snow of Lebanon leave from [the] crags of Sirion? Or are [the] cold waters flowing from distant mountains dried up?

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

But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for eternity, but the water which I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

Now on the last day of the feast--the great [day]--Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let him drink,

And he said to me, "It is done! I [am] the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give [water] from the spring of the water of life freely.

And he showed me the river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming out from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Broken cisterns

Has a nation exchanged gods? And they [are] not gods! But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.

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

Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance.

"Vanity of vanities!" says the Teacher, "Vanity of vanities! All [is] vanity!"

Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, "Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!"

I also realized that all [of the] toil and all [of] the skillful work that is done--it [is] envy between one man and {another}. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!

"Vanity of vanity!" says the Teacher. "Everything [is] vanity!"

All those who form an idol [are] nothing, and their delightful things do not profit. And their witnesses do not see or know, so they will be ashamed.

Those who lavish gold from [the] purse and weigh out silver in the balance scales; hire {a goldsmith} and he makes him a god; they bow down, indeed they bow in worship.

Why do you weigh out money for [what is] not food, and your labor for {what cannot satisfy}? Listen carefully to me, and eat [what is] good, and let your soul take pleasure in {rich} food.

These [people] are waterless springs and mists driven by a hurricane, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved.

General references

Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. Therefore I will no longer deliver you.

He abandoned Yahweh the God of his ancestors and did not walk in the way of Yahweh.

In the house of Israel I have seen something horrible; Ephraim's unfaithfulness [is] there. Israel is defiled.

Those who worship vain idols forsake their loyal love.