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 whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him, shall never thirst any more, but the water that I will give him shall become a living spring of water within him, welling up into eternal life."
John 7:37
Now the last day, that the great day of the feast, Jesus stood up and cried in a loud voice.
Revelation 21:6
He also said: "It has now come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, The Beginning and the End. To him who thirsts I will freely give Of the spring of the Water of life.
Revelation 22:1
And he showed me the river of the Water of Life, clear as crystal, Flowing out from the throne of God, and of the Lamb,
Broken cisterns
2 Peter 2:17
Such men are like waterless springs, or mists storm-driven; for them the blackness of darkness has been reserved.