Matthew Poole Commentary - Jeremiah 2:13 - 2:13

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Jeremiah 2:13 - 2:13


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Committed two evils, viz. remarkable ones, and with a witness.



Living waters; a metaphor taken from springs, called living here, and Gen_26:19, and elsewhere, because they never cease or intermit; such had God’s care and kindness been over and to them; see on Isa_58:11; his Spirit continually proceeding from the Father and the Son to refresh their consciences. Compare Joh_4:10 7:38,39.



Cisterns: it is doubled, to show the multitude of their shifts; and



broken is added, to show the helplessness of them, as being able to hold no water; but when a man hath made many hard shifts to get water, he cannot keep it, but it dries away; or if it abide, proves unwholesome: by which understand either their



idols, which are empty, vain things, that never answer expectation; or the Assyrians and Egyptians, as Jer_2:18, which proved but broken reeds, and as all other supports or props, friends, traditions, merits, &c. are that are trusted to besides God; they are but cisterns at the best, whose water will putrify, or broken, riven vessels, through which they will soak, and leave nothing but mud and dirt behind them.