Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 2:13

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13. two evils —not merely one evil, like the idolaters who know no better; besides simple idolatry, My people add the sin of forsaking the true God whom they have known; the heathen, though having the sin of idolatry, are free from the further sin of changing the true God for idols ( :- ). forsaken me —The Hebrew collocation brings out the only living God into more prominent contrast with idol nonentities. " Me they have forsaken, the Fountain," c. ( Jeremiah 17:13 Psalms 36:9 ; John 4:14 ). broken cisterns —tanks for rain water, common in the East, where wells are scarce. The tanks not only cannot give forth an ever-flowing fresh supply as fountains can, but cannot even retain the water poured into them; the stonework within being broken, the earth drinks up the collected water. So, in general, all earthly, compared with heavenly, means of satisfying man's highest wants ( Isaiah 55:1 ; Isaiah 55:2 ; compare Isaiah 55:2- : ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-14" class="com-number"

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