...and joining themselves to idols ; as is expressed in most striking imagery in the thirteenth verse: "My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken...them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." God is the author of all blessings, both for the body and the soul ; and whatever else men...

...this, rather than their Bible, are like the Jews whom Jeremiah, in God's name, thus describes : — " My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken...them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." (Jer. ii. 13.) Or rather, it is to be feared, that the whole body, teachers and people, are...

...fulfilment of Jer. ii. 12, 13, " Be ye astonished, Oye heavens, at this, and be ye horribly afraid ; be ye very desolate, saith the Lord, for my people have...two evils, they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters." [340] Matth. xxvii, 51. And behold the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the...

...admiration; and yet, Oh, strange to say! the Lord has frequently to 'bring against us the accusation, — 'My people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and they have hewed out unto themselves cisterns, — broken cisterns, that can hold no water.' We are,...

...very brink of ruin when Jeremiah penned the text. As he says elsewhere, speaking in the person of God, "My people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and have hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water»." The pure faith delivered...

...scriptures. " Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, sailh the Lord. For my people have committed two evils ;...them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water," Jeremiah, ii. 12, 13. "Lo, this only have I found, that God made man upright, but they have...

...most impassioned and striking : " Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have...waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, which can hold no water." In the chapter from which our text is selected a parallel summons is given...

...God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of- their heart. Eph. iv. 18. \ My people have committed two evils. They have forsaken...them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Jer. ii. 13. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked ; who can know...

...horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils ; they nave forsaken me, the Fountain of living waters, and hewed...them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water," Jeremiah, ii. 12, 13. "Lo, this only have I found, that God made man upright, but they have...

...other. And in the 2nd of Jeremiah, verse 13, we find sin thus expressed under the name of evil : ' for my people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and have hewn them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.' Secondly ; good and evil in another...