Jeremiah 2:13 meaning and explanation

“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.

Jeremiah 2:13, Berean Standard Bible

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God speaks through Jeremiah to Judah, charging His people with two linked evils. Forsaking Him is pictured as abandoning a fountain of living water, fresh spring water that never runs dry.

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