Jeremiah 2:13

Israel committed two evils: forsaking God the living spring and digging broken cisterns. They left the source of life for empty substitutes.

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• John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
• John 7:37Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
• Rev 21:6He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
• Jer 17:13Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.
• Ps 36:9For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
• Rev 22:1He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
• Rev 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
• Isa 55:2Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.
• Ps 81:11–13But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
• Jer 4:22“For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”
• Jer 2:17“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
• Jer 2:11Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
• Jer 2:31–32Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’
• 2 Pet 2:17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
• Jer 1:16I will utter my judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.
• Isa 46:6–7Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down — yes, they worship.
• Isa 44:9–20Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
• Isa 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know, my people don’t consider.”
• Jer 15:6You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward: therefore I have stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.
• Ps 146:3–4Don’t put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.
• Isa 5:13Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
• Isa 63:8For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.
• 1 Sam 12:10They cried to Yahweh, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh, and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’
• Ps 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
• Eccl 2:26For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
• Eccl 1:2“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
• Eccl 2:11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
• Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
• Eccl 4:4Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
• Eccl 2:21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
• Eccl 1:14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
• Judg 10:13Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.
• Jer 2:26As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;
• Mic 2:8But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.
• Jer 18:14Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
• Mic 6:3My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!
• Jer 5:26For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
• Eccl 12:8“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”

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