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 whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, will never thirst; but the water that I shall give him, will be in him a fountain of water, springing up into everlasting life.
John 7:37
On the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, 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 thirsteth of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Revelation 22:1
And he shewed me a river of the water of life clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Broken cisterns
2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved for ever.