George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 2:13
Water. The idols and nations, to which they have had recourse, injure them. (Calmet) --- The Jews did just the reverse to what God commanded. (Worthington)
Water. The idols and nations, to which they have had recourse, injure them. (Calmet) --- The Jews did just the reverse to what God commanded. (Worthington)
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_, f...
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 i...
CHAPTER S 2:1-3:5 Expostulation and Impeachment _ 1. His love and kindness to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:1) _ 2. The unfaithful people (Jeremiah 2:4) 3. The two evils and the results (Jeremiah 2:12)...
YAHWEH'S REPROACHES. Yahweh asks why His redeeming acts are forgotten and His (true) worship abandoned; other nations do not abandon their gods, though these are worthless, but Yahweh's people have fo...
FOUNTAIN. a well dug out, but having living water. CISTERNS. a hewn cistern, holding only what it receives. CAN HOLD NO WATER. cannot hold the waters....
"Jehovah is a fountain of living water, having life in Himself, giving life to all." (Co.) Israel has preferred cisterns, the contents of which, vapid and worthless in themselves, speedily disappear t...
DISCOURSE: 1027 THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS Jeremiah 2:12. _Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils...
AND HEWED THEM OUT CISTERNS— By these cisterns are meant the foreign succours which they sought for from the Assyrians and Egyptians; succours, which became not only useless, but destructive to them....
C. Penetrating Analysis Jeremiah 2:9-19 TRANSLATION (9) So yet I present My case against you (oracle of the LORD), and with your children I must contend. (10) For pass over to the isles of Kittim and...
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. TWO EVILS - not merely one evil, l...
JEREMIAH'S SECOND PROPHECY (2:1-3:5) The prophet expostulates with Israel because of their unfaithfulness to Jehovah. 1-13. Under the figure of the marriage relation Jehovah reminds the people of Hi...
Grod's blessing, under the figure of fresh water as supplied by a spring or rivulet, is contrasted with the vanity of serving idols, which is as devoid of profit as is a cracked reservoir (dug to coll...
THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS. — The word rendered “well,” as in Proverbs 10:11; Proverbs 18:4; “fountain,” as in Psalms 36:9, is used of water flowing from the rock. The “cistern,” on the other hand,...
כִּֽי ־שְׁתַּ֥יִם רָעֹ֖ות עָשָׂ֣ה עַמִּ֑י אֹתִ֨י...
CHAPTER II THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1 THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menace...
The first movement in commissioning the called man now commences. He was commanded to utter a great impeachment in the ears of Jerusalem. This impeachment was threefold. It first declared how Israel h...
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me (t) the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (t) Signifying that w...
Reader! this is not the first time that we meet with such appeals to heaven, and to other parts of the inanimate creation: for if man will not hear, to whom shall respect be had? Isaiah 50:2; Deuteron...
_GOD’S COMPLAINT_ ‘They have forsaken Me.’ Jeremiah 2:13__ An evil thing and bitter it is to forsake God. I. IT IS SO UNREASONABLE.—There is an element of thoughtlessness in all sin. If I had pond...
If a reason is given here why the Prophet had bidden the heavens to be astonished and terrified, then we must render the words thus, “For two evils have my people done:” but I rather think that the pr...
Chapter 2 contains a most touching appeal to the people at Jerusalem. It requires no explanation, but deserves the heart's serious attention. It testifies in the most striking manner to the kindness a...
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,...
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. Ver. 13. _For my people have commi...
_Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this_ A pathetical expression, in the poetic style, signifying that the wickedness of these apostates from God was so great, that the very inanimate creatures, could t...
For My people have committed two evils, thus exceeding even the heathen with their one transgression of foolish idolatry: THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME, THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS, the only true and living...
ISRAEL'S LACK OF FAITHFULNESS...
9-13 Before God punishes sinners, he pleads with them, to bring them to repentance. He pleads with us, what we should plead with ourselves. Be afraid to think of the wrath and curse which will be the...
COMMITTED TWO EVILS, viz. remarkable ones, and with a witness. LIVING WATERS; a metaphor taken from springs, called living here, and GENESIS 26:19, and elsewhere, because they never cease or intermit;...
Jeremiah 2:13 people H5971 committed H6213 (H8804) two H8147 evils H7451 forsaken H5800 (H8804) fountain H4726 liv
YHWH EXPRESSES HIS ASTONISHMENT AT THE INCREDIBLE WAY IN WHICH THEY HAVE BEHAVED (JEREMIAH 2:9). YHWH expresses His astonishment at the behaviour of His people, and calls on the heavens to witness wha...
Jeremiah 2:13 Consider some of the cisterns, and see whether it be not strictly true that they can hold no water. I. The cistern of Sensualism. Not even the sensualist himself can always succeed in s...
Jeremiah 2:1. Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem saying, Thus saith the LORD: I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals...
Jeremiah 2:1. Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousal...
CONTENTS: First message to backslidden Judah concerning their ingratitude to God and wickedness against Him. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is a great affront to God to neglect Him and for...
Jeremiah 2:2. _I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth._ God now addressed them, that he might do the same to the children as he had done to the fathers, and rejoice over them as the bridegroom rej...
_Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods?_ CHRISTIAN CONTROVERSY The text may be put into other words, thus: “Go over to the islands of the Chittim, the isles and coast lands of the f...
_My people have committed two evils._ TWO ASTOUNDING EVILS I. The force of human freedom. Mightiest rivers cannot break from their source, nor greatest planets from their centre, but man can from ce...
JEREMIAH 2:1 Israel’s Covenantal Adultery. These five related messages were probably delivered during Josiah’s reign (Jeremiah 3:6). Jeremiah declares that God’s chosen people commit spiritual adulter...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 2:12 The HEAVENS, called as witnesses in the lawsuit (see note on v. 9), are shocked by Israel’s abandoning the FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS for...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY. Most probably in thirteenth Josiah, quickly after his call. Dr. Dahler (Stratsbourg) would interpose Chapter s 4, 5, 6; deferring this chapter till after...
EXPOSITION The second chapter forms the introduction of a group of discourses (Jeremiah 2-6), which should be read together. It is called By Ewald (and the position of the prophecy favors this view) t...
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD (Jeremiah 2:1-2); Now this is the first message that he has to deliver. As God is cal...
1 Samuel 12:10; 2 Peter 2:17; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 1:2;...
Of living waters — A metaphor taken from springs, called living, because they never cease, or intermit; such had God's care and kindness been over them. Cisterns — Either their idols, which are empty...