Jeremia 2:13

Lutherbibel

Denn mein Volk tut eine zwiefache Sünde: mich, die lebendige Quelle, verlassen sie und machen sich hier und da ausgehauenen Brunnen, die doch löcherig sind und kein Wasser geben.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Denn mein Volk hat eine zwiefache Sünde begangen: Mich, die Quelle des lebendigen Wassers haben sie verlassen, um sich Zisternen zu graben, löcherige Zisternen, die kein Wasser halten!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For my: Jeremiah 2:31, Jeremiah 2:32, Jeremiah 4:22, Jeremiah 5:26, Jeremiah 5:31, Psalms 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, Psalms 36:9, John 4:14, John 7:37, Revelation 21:6, Revelation 22:1, Revelation 22:17

broken cisterns: Jeremiah 2:11, Jeremiah 2:26, Psalms 115:4-8, Psalms 146:3, Psalms 146:4, Ecclesiastes 1:2, Ecclesiastes 1:14, Ecclesiastes 2:11, Ecclesiastes 2:21, Ecclesiastes 2:26, Ecclesiastes 4:4, Ecclesiastes 12:8, Isaiah 44:9-20, Isaiah 46:6, Isaiah 46:7, Isaiah 55:2, 2 Peter 2:17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 30:19 - I call heaven Judges 10:6 - the gods of the Philistines 1 Samuel 12:21 - vain things 1 Kings 11:33 - they have forsaken 1 Kings 18:18 - in that ye have 2 Kings 21:22 - General 2 Chronicles 21:10 - because 2 Chronicles 29:6 - have forsaken him Psalms 14:3 - all gone Psalms 42:2 - living Ecclesiastes 7:29 - they Song of Solomon 4:15 - a well Isaiah 1:4 - forsaken Isaiah 8:6 - that go softly Isaiah 12:3 - with joy Isaiah 31:1 - stay on horses Isaiah 59:13 - departing Jeremiah 5:19 - Like as Jeremiah 13:25 - because Jeremiah 14:3 - pits Jeremiah 18:13 - virgin Jeremiah 18:15 - my people Jeremiah 19:4 - they have Ezekiel 16:30 - weak Ezekiel 24:12 - wearied Ezekiel 47:1 - waters issued Hosea 1:2 - for Hosea 6:10 - General Jonah 2:8 - General Zephaniah 1:6 - turned Luke 15:13 - and took John 4:10 - living Romans 3:12 - They are Galatians 1:6 - so Hebrews 3:12 - an Revelation 7:17 - shall lead

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For my people have committed two evils,.... Not but that they had committed more, but there were two principal ones they were guilty of, hereafter mentioned; and it was an aggravation of these crimes, that they were the professing people of God who had committed them: and it may be observed, that such sin; they are not without it, nor the commission of it; and may be left to fall into great sins, and yet remain his people; covenant interest cannot be dissolved; this should be considered not as an encouragement to sin, but as a relief under a sense of sin:

they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters; this is said of Christ, Song of Solomon 4:15, grace in him is compared to "water", it being cooling and refreshing, cleansing and fructifying; and to living water, because it quickens dead sinners, revives drooping saints, supports and maintains spiritual life, and issues in eternal life; and because it is perpetual and ever flowing; and to a "fountain", denoting that the original of it is in Christ, and the great abundance of it which is in him; it is as water in a fountain, in us as in streams: now to forsake this fountain is the first of these evils; which is done when the people of God are remiss in the exercise of faith on Christ; grow cold in their affections to him, and neglect his word and ordinances.

And hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water; this is the other evil; and such are the world, and the things in it, when cleaved unto, and rest and satisfaction are taken in them; the inventions and ordinances of men, when followed and attended to; moral duties, and evangelical services, when depended on; and even spiritual frames, when these are lived upon, and put in the room of Christ; yea, acts of faith, when they are rested in, and the object not so much regarded as should be: moreover, what may principally be intended are, in the first place, forsaking the worship of God, as the Targum interprets it, the assembling of themselves together to attend his service and ordinances, which is to forsake their own mercies; and, in the next place, following after idols, as the same paraphrase explains it, which have no divinity in them, and can yield no help and relief, or give any comfort, or afford any supply in time of distress and need. It is egregious folly to leave a fountain for a cistern, and especially a broken one: in a fountain the water is living, and always running, and ever springing up; not so in a cistern, and in a broken cistern there is none at all.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The pagan are guilty of but one sin - idolatry; the covenant-people commit two - they abandon the true God; they serve idols.

Fountain - Not a spring or natural fountain, but a tank or reservoir dug in the ground (see Jeremiah 6:7), and chiefly intended for storing living waters, i. e., those of springs and rivulets. The cistern was used for storing up rain-water only, and therefore the quantity it contained was limited.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 2:13. Two evils — First, they forsook God, the Fountain of life, light, prosperity, and happiness. Secondly, they hewed out broken cisterns; they joined themselves to idols, from whom they could receive neither temporal nor spiritual good! Their conduct was the excess of folly and blindness. What we call here broken cisterns, means more properly such vessels as were ill made, not staunch, ill put together, so that the water leaked through them.