Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
The fountain
Broken cisterns
Bible References
The fountain
John 4:14
but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst: for the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a fountain springing up to everlasting life.
John 7:37
In the last day, the most solemn day of the feast, Jesus being there, raised his voice, and said, if any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink.
Revelation 21:6
and he said to me, "it is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end: to him that is a-thirst I will freely give of the fountain of living water.
Revelation 22:1
Then he shewed me a pure river of living water, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God, and of the lamb.
Broken cisterns
2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water; clouds agitated with a tempest, who are consigned to the obscurity of eternal darkness.