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

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Bible References

For my

O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why say my people, We are lords; we will come no more to thee?

For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, 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 men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would not obey me.

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Savior.

Even of late my people hath risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse to war.

O my people, what have I done to thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me,

The fountain

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

But whoever drinketh 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.

In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirsteth, let him come to me, and drink.

And he said to me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that is thirsty 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

Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

Their idols are silver and gold; the work of men's hands.

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

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

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was 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 saith the preacher; all is vanity.

They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.

Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently to me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

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Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.

And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.

I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the prostitution of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.