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 drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life."
John 7:37
Now, on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood, and cried, saying, "If anyone thirst, let him come to Me and drink.
Revelation 21:6
And He said to me, "It has come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give to him that thirsted of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Revelation 22:1
And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, issuing forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
Broken cisterns
2 Peter 2:17
These are fountains without water, and mists driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved.