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For my people have committed two evils;
they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters,
and hewed them out
cisterns,
broken cisterns,
that can hold no water.
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"cisterns"
occurs 6 times in 5 verses in the NIV.
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“Come now,
let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him.
Then we'll see what comes of his dreams.”
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When the Israelites saw that their situation was critical and that their army was hard pressed,
they hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in pits and cisterns.
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He also built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns,
because he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain.
He had people working his fields and vineyards in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.
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“My people have committed two sins:
They have forsaken me,
the spring of living water,
and have dug their own cisterns,
broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
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The
nobles send their servants for water;
they go to the
cisterns
but find no water.
They return with their
jars unfilled;
dismayed and despairing,
they cover their heads.
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