“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 2 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Wells without water' inverts the prophetic image of the LORD as 'the fountain of living waters' whom the people forsook for 'broken cisterns that can hold no water' — the false teachers promise water and give none.
Medium confidence"the fountain of living waters" (LXX pegen hydatos zoes) — Jeremiah's image of God as the living-water source colors "springs of life-giving waters" (pegas hydaton zoes); the phrase also runs through Ps 36:9, Zech 14:8, and John 4/7. Common idiom, so single-verse attribution is uncertain; cited as the closest verbal match.
Low confidence'The fountain of living waters' (God) contrasted with broken cisterns — colors the 'spring of the water of life' (v.6).
Low confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Israel forsook the LORD, 'the fountain of living waters,' for broken cisterns; Jesus offers the 'living water' (hydor zon) the woman cannot draw from a deep well. High Volume (rare exact phrase 'living water/fountain of living waters') and Coherence: Jesus is the true fountain over against a cistern that cannot hold.
High confidence