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 the Word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, We roam freely; we will come no more to You?

For My people are foolish; they have not known Me; they are stupid sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

But My people would not listen to My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.

For this My people go into exile without knowledge, and their honorable men into famine, and his multitude is dried up with thirst.

For He said, Surely they are My people, sons that will not lie; so He was their Savior.

Even yesterday, My people has risen up like an enemy; you strip off a cloak along with an outer robe, from those who pass by trustingly, those returning from war.

O My people, what have I done to you? And in what have I made you weary? Testify against Me!

The fountain

O Jehovah, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be ashamed. Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the Fountain of living waters.

Does the snow of Lebanon forsake 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 we shall see light.

but whoever 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.

And in the last day of the great feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.

And He said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who thirsts I will give 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 their gods who 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.

Do not put your trust in princes, nor in the son of man in whom there is no salvation.

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

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit; and there is no profit under the sun.

Again, I considered all labor, and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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

Those who make a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things in which they delight shall not help; and they are their own witnesses. They do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed.

They pour gold out of the bag, and weigh silver out of the measuring rod, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god; they fall down, yea, they bow down.

Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

These are wells without water, clouds driven with a tempest, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

General references

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

And he left Jehovah, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of Jehovah.

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

They who take heed to lying vanities forsake their kindness;