Jeremiah 2:13
“"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.”
— Jeremiah 2:13
About this verse
Jeremiah 2:13 comes from the book of Jeremiah, written during the Divided Kingdom (~930 BC) period. The setting is Jerusalem. These words are attributed to Yahweh. The dominant emotion in this verse is grieving, with a comfort power of 20% and a tone that is lamenting. It belongs to the metaphor genre of biblical literature. Key themes include abandonment, futility. Notable phrases: spring of living waters; broken cisterns.
Speaker
Yahweh
Era
Divided Kingdom (~930 BC)
Emotion
grieving
Type
metaphor
Emotional genome
Comfort power
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