1Ⅱ “My people have committed two evils: / They have forsaken Me, / The fountain of living waters, / To hew out for themselves cisterns, / Broken cisterns, / Which hold no water”—Jer. 2:13:
2一 以色列本该饮于神这活水的泉源,好成为神的扩增,作祂的彰显,但他们反倒作了两件恶事:
2A Israel should have drunk of God as the fountain of living waters that they might become His increase as His expression, but instead they committed two evils:
31 他们离弃神作他们的泉源,源头,并且转向神以外的源头;这两件恶事支配了整卷耶利米书。
31 They forsook God as their fountain, their source, and they turned to a source other than God; these two evils govern the entire book of Jeremiah.
42 凿出池子描绘以色列用人的劳碌辛苦,制作一些东西(偶像)顶替神。
42 The hewing out of cisterns portrays Israel’s toil in their human labor to make something (idols) to replace God.
53 That the cisterns were broken and could hold no water indicates that apart from God Himself dispensed into us as living water, nothing can quench our thirst and make us God’s increase for His expression—John 4:13-14.