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 drinks of the water which I will give him shall never thirst; but the water which I will give him shall be in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.
John 7:37
And on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any one thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
Revelation 21:6
And he said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that thirsts 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, proceeding from the throne of God and the Lamb.
Broken cisterns
2 Peter 2:17
These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to which is reserved the blackness of darkness.