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 spring welling up within him--a source of Immortal Life."
John 7:37
On the last and greatest day of the Festival, Jesus, who was standing by, exclaimed: "If any one thirsts, let him come to me, and drink.
Revelation 21:6
And he said to me-- 'They are fulfilled. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who thirsts I will give of the spring of the Water of Life, freely.
Revelation 22:1
And the angel showed me 'a river of the Water of Life,' as clear as crystal, issuing from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
Broken cisterns
2 Peter 2:17
These men are like springs without water, or mists driven before a gale; and for them the blackest darkness has been reserved.