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Relief organizations like World Vision or Compassion International often show us pictures of women and children collecting dirty, polluted water in small buckets to take home for their drinking water. That sight of despair and futility often brings many Americans to tears as they offer money to dig wells for fresh water. Now imagine how we would feel if there was a well with fresh, clean water available and those people went back to the filthy, dirty streams they used to gather water from. Our sympathy would quickly turn to anger and frustration.
It is no surprise then that God is angry with his people in this passage. We can practically feel the frustration through the page as we read, "My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water" (v. 13).
It is no surprise then that God is angry with his people in this passage. We can practically feel the frustration through the page as we read, "My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water" (v. 13).
