Jeremiah 1–6: Broken Cisterns & Living Waters
“For My people have done two evils:
They have forsaken Me,
The fountain of living waters,
To hew for themselves cisterns,
Broken cisterns
That can hold no water.”
Truth For The Heart
“For My people have done two evils:
They have forsaken Me,
The fountain of living waters,
To hew for themselves cisterns,
Broken cisterns
That can hold no water.”
“Do not be afraid, for am I in God’s place?
As for you, you meant evil against me,
but God meant it for good
in order to do what has happened
on this day, to keep many people alive.”
Then he fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
Read More“A Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” declares Yahweh.
Blessed be Yahweh,
For He has made marvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged city.
As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will see it and be satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
As He will bear their iniquities.
“Turn to Me and be saved,
all the ends of the earth;
For I am God, and there is no other.”
They will come
and will declare His righteousness
To a people who will be born,
that He has done it.
“But go and learn what this means:
‘I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,’
for I did not come to call the righteous,
but sinners.”