Jeremiah 2:13
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
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 people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- For my
- Jeremiah 2:31, 32; Jeremiah 4:22; Jeremiah 5:26, 31; Psalm 81:11–13; Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 5:13; Isaiah 63:8; Micah 2:8; Micah 6:3
- forsaken
- Jeremiah 2:17; Jeremiah 1:16; Jeremiah 15:6; Judges 10:13; 1 Samuel 12:10
- the fountain
- Jeremiah 17:13; Jeremiah 18:14; Psalm 36:9; John 4:14; John 7:37; Revelation 21:6; Revelation 22:1, 17
- broken cisterns
- Jeremiah 2:11, 26; Psalm 115:4–8; Psalm 146:3, 4; Ecclesiastes 1:2, 14; Ecclesiastes 2:11, 21, 26; Ecclesiastes 4:4; Ecclesiastes 12:8; Isaiah 44:9–20; Isaiah 46:6, 7; Isaiah 55:2; 2 Peter 2:17