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 drinketh of the water that I will give him, will never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become within him a well of water springing up to everlasting life.
John 7:37
On the last day, which is the great day, of the feast, Jesus stood and cried aloud, saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me, and drink.
Revelation 21:6
And he said to me, All things are accomplished. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To him that thirsteth I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Revelation 22:1
And he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, coming out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Broken cisterns
2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water, and mists driven by a tempest; for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved.