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.

Broken cisterns

Bible References

The fountain

John 4:14
but whoever drinks any of the water that I shall give him will never, never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become a fountain within him of water springing up for the Life of the Ages."
John 7:37
On the last day of the Festival--the great day--Jesus stood up and cried aloud. "Whoever is thirsty," He said, "let him come to me and drink.
Revelation 21:6
He also said, "They have now been fulfilled. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To those who are thirsty I will give the privilege of drinking from the well of the Water of Life without payment.
Revelation 22:1
Then he showed me the river of the Water of Life, bright as crystal, issuing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Broken cisterns

2 Peter 2:17
These people are wells without water, mists driven along by a storm, men for whom the dense darkness has been reserved.