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Jeremiah 2:13
New English Translation
Jeremiah 2:13
New English Translation
13 “Do so because my people have committed a double wrong:
They have rejected me,
the fountain of life-giving water,[a]
and they have dug cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns that cannot even hold water.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:13 tn It is difficult to decide whether to translate “fresh, running water” which the Hebrew term for “living water” often refers to (e.g., Gen 26:19; Lev 14:5), or “life-giving water” which the idiom “fountain of life” as source of life and vitality often refers to (e.g., Ps 36:9; Prov 13:14; 14:27). The contrast with cisterns, which collected and held rain water, suggests “fresh, running water,” but the reality underlying the metaphor contrasts the Lord, the source of life, health, and vitality, with useless idols that cannot do anything.
Jeremiah 2:13
American Standard Version
Jeremiah 2:13
American Standard Version
13 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.
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