Jeremiah 2:13

KJV

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, King James Version
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Jeremiah 2:13, King James Version.

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The double indictment — 'my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water' — is one of the most economical theological critiques in the prophetic corpus. The image pairs the renunciation of a natural spring (God as inexhaustible source) with the construction of artificial alternatives (idols and foreign alliances) that are inherently defective. The metaphor extends through the Gospel of John, where Jesus identifies himself as the source of 'living water' (4:10-14; 7:37-39), consciously evoking this Jeremian contrast between the divine source and inadequate human substitutes. The verse diagnoses the fundamental structure of idolatry as a two-step movement: departure from the genuine followed by futile self-provision.

תרגומים נוספים

ASV

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.

YLT

For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells--broken wells, That contain not the waters.

BBE

For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.