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Jeremiah 2:13

King James Version (KJV)

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Jeremiah 2:13

Verse 13 of 37

Scripture focus

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.

Jeremiah 2:13 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jeremiah 2:13

Theological / Devotional

Two evils. The two evils may be defined as: (1) rejection of the real, and (2) the adoption of the unreal. The first naturally leads to the second.

Forsaken me. The “me” is emphatic in the Hebrew.

Living waters. That is, “flowing waters.” The Hebrew phrase thus translated occurs in Gen. 26:19; Lev. 14:5; etc. On the figure, compare Jer. 17:13; John 4:10 ; 7:37; 3T 467; PP 413.

Broken cisterns. Water has always been a precious commodity in the Near East. Anyone who possessed a gushing spring of life-giving water would be foolish to trade it for a leaky cistern of stagnant water.

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