Ah, when will saints give as much diligence to their high and holy calling as the servants of pleasure give to theirs? But if we look around us in all directions for help, our evils shall not be lessened but increased. God spoke the words recorded in Jeremiah 29:12-13 to Israel through the prophet Jeremiah. Our grandfathers could tell us what a great noise sounded through Europe in the days of their early youth at the strokes of a great cistern hewer. we find that the workers work no more. — The Euphrates, upon whose banks stood Nineveh, Assyria’s capital. but then, being broken cisterns, riven vessels, what hold they else but limum et lapides, mud and gravel? He tells us that he is not yet satisfied; that he is hoping to be; that with all his knowledge he feels more ignorant than wise; that if he gets fresh light he seems only to realise more fully the fact that he is standing on the border of a vaster territory of darkness; that if he solves one mystery it serves but to show a thousand more; and that he has been striving, too, for many years at some difficulties which have hitherto beaten him back in hopeless confusion. Contrary to those two good things that I have commanded them, viz., "Depart from evil, and do good." It contains all the secret of religion; the secret which it is the object of preaching of every kind to reveal and to enforce; the one truth which prophets present in every form of living and burning words,--that all life worthy of the name is life in, and with, and for God; that life without God is a dream likest death, except that by God’s mercy it is always possible to awake from it. LATER ADDITION: WARNING AGAINST IDOLATRY. blackness) may have been a way of denigrating the river, which was one of Egypt"s primary gods. "The best cisterns, even those in solid rock, are strangely liable to crack, and are a most unreliable source of supply of that absolutely indispensable article, water; and if, by constant care, they are made to hold, yet the water, collected from clay roofs or from marly soil, has the color of weak soapsuds, the taste of the earth or the stable, is full of worms, and in the hour of greatest need it utterly fails. God employed different scourges to awaken the sottishness of the people; at one time, he whistled for the Egyptians, as we shall presently see; at another, he blew the trumpet in Assyria: so that the Israelites might know that they could never be safe without being under the government of God. I wonder where the man is who can raise an intelligent and experienced protest against the epithet. And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt? God is the fountain of living waters; in other words, in fellowship with God there is full satisfaction for all the capacities and desires of the soul; heart-conscience-will-understanding-hope and fear. But the sensualist reasons as if he forgets two most important points. The contrast is between the springing fountain, there in the desert, with the lush green herbage round about, where a man has only to stoop and drink, and the painful hewing of cisterns. And in front of me is the Judgment Seat. Before we can know that He is worthy of our supreme love, reverence, and trust, and that we should obey His will, He must make Himself known. Even these broken cisterns we are obliged to hew out to ourselves, and be at great labour to procure. And to us it is the like. 1. Have not all the fairy visions of our fancy been converted into bushes of thorns and barren rocks of desolation? Then it occurred to me how much we had heard in our time of natural science and physical science as cisterns at which human beings were to quench their thirst. Has not sin been an universal deceiver, a cruel, remorseless taskmaster? This then is what the Prophet now means, when he says, that the people had sinned not only by departing from the true God, but also by going over, without any compensation, unto idols, which could confer no good on them. Sinner, God is angry with the wicked every day. Would you learn the weakness of wealth as well as its power? See on Isaiah 23:3; (note). The nature of sin. Think over these cisterns which have been built, and have been offered to us in our time, and ask whether, after all, they are not broken, obviously broken before our eyes. — As against the one sin of the heathen. There was doubtless a league between Judea and Assyria (that is, Babylon), which caused Josiah to march against Pharaoh-necho of Egypt when that king went against Babylon: the evil consequences of this league are foretold in this verse and Jeremiah 2:36. When I read his broken and halting conclusions, and see what he offers me as the cup of cold water to quench the ardent thirst of my soul, I cannot hesitate to say, with all reverence to so good, so honest, and sincere a thinker: “My friend, you have brought me to a broken cistern, which can give no water for the thirsty soul of man.”, 4. As I have just stated, the Prophet confirms what I said, — that the people could not ascribe the cause of their evils to others; for they ought to have imputed to themselves whatever they suffered; and at the same time their sin was doubled, because they looked here and there for vain remedies, and thus accumulated for themselves new causes of misery; for they ought to have acknowledged no other remedy for their evils except reconciliation with God. Our text is not only a remonstrance on the grounds of prudence, showing God-neglecting men that they are foolish, but it is an appeal to conscience, convincing them that they are sinful. What hast thou to do in the way of Egypt - Why dost thou make alliances with Egypt? matthew henry commented on the wrath of God: It is something very terrible, sudden, irresistible, hurtful and sure to accomplish God’s will. What is death?--what will it be to me? Hark to the blasphemies which are poured into His ears! 3 m For the time is coming when people will not endure n sound 1 teaching, but having itching ears they … This reference to the Judahites seeking help from Egypt and Assyria probably dates this sermon sometime before the decline of Assyrian supremacy in the ancient Near East, namely, before612 B.C, when Nineveh fell (cf. Thirst has an injurious effect upon the body’s life, beauty, health, and strength, and is a most painful sensation. We require light and air; we require bread and human society, and a multitude of other things; but creatures are not absolutely needed. The love of wealth for its own sake is a passion, and grows with that it feeds on, swelling far more rapidly than the acquisitions it makes, and therefore leaving the man who is the victim of it, day by day more in arrears of his aim. Sihor — that is, the black river, in Greek, {(Melas} (“black”), the Nile: so called from the black deposit or soil it leaves after the inundation (Isaiah 23:3). The cistern of Sensualism. Yet God remains ever like himself: as then he has called himself the fountain of living waters, we shall at this day find him to be so, except he is prevented by our wickedness and neglect. ‘Tis He; it is the Crucified One, it is none other than Jesus, the Son of man, the Saviour of the world. He reasons as if the soul were still as it was when it came bright and sinless from its Creator’s hands; as if its original harmony and balance were undisturbed; as if there had been no obscuration of the moral sense and no inflammation of the passions. 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. See on Isaiah 23:3. He, no doubt, speaks of the waters of the Nile and of the Euphrates, because both those nations abounded apparently in wealth and power and in military forces. what remedy ought you to have sought, except to reconcile yourselves to me, to seek pardon from me, and to strive to correct your wickedness? And the man who is hewing out for himself a cistern of sensual pleasure is like the dram drinker, who derives less stimulus and delight from the same quantity every day, who has accordingly to increase the dose to supply the same excitement; who at length gets beyond the range of gratification, but finds that the passion holds him fast in its serpent coils even when all its joys are forever fled. The Nile was muddy, and that may be the reason it was called "black.". And yet during the past week you have fallen into your old sin. When therefore we despise the bounty of God, which is sufficient to make us in every way happy, how great must be our ingratitude and wickedness? He will never give up his rightful claim to his people. Another characteristic of worldly enjoyments is their instability, their transitoriness, their incapacity for yielding any continued happiness, or for “giving a man peace at the last.” They are not “cisterns” only, but “broken cisterns”; vessels which let out their contents as fast as they put them in; cisterns “which can hold no water.” The world not only palls upon its votaries while drinking of its waters, but its tide is always ebbing away. He sets the “fountain of living waters” in contrast with “broken cisterns”--as though He would point out the vast indignity offered Him, in that what was preferred was so unworthy and insufficient. That is a vivid metaphor for the fragmentary satisfaction which all earthly good gives, leaving a deep yearning unstilled. Why should they drink the waters of Sihor, the black Nile, or those of the great river, Euphrates? Two evils - not merely one evil, like the idolaters who know no better: besides simple idolatry, my people add the sin of forsaking the true God whom they have known; the pagan, though having the sin of idolatry, are free from the further sin of 'changing' the true God for idols (Jeremiah 2:11). And today it seems as if it were in a sense easier to get to the spring than in any other day that has ever been. Forsaken me. Before that he served as director and teacher at what fools we all are! The sense is, that they preferred the waters of the Nile and of Euphrates, or the gods of the Egyptians and Assyrians, or the help of these people, before the Lord, the fountain of living waters, and his worship and powerful help. The men who do not ask for either God or life or eternity. (G. He forgets that the passions are no longer what once they were. And what if God say, “By the deeds of the law shall no flesh living be justified”? God has made the broad road thus to prevent His children walking therein. Illustrations in religion. The evils of which we are here accused: (1) departure from our Creator; (2) seeking our happiness in the creature rather than in the Creator. Their distinguishing mark as a nation was insight into God: they had discerned Him as one; they had learned that He was holy; they had fixed, for all coming time, the true point of contact between God and man in the god-likeness of humanity; and yet in their history, as told by their own lips, they show themselves false, fickle, sensual, cruel, as hardly any other people. on StudyLight.org In the life of Madame Guyon I have read an anecdote something to this effect. 1. And hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns. Christ opens ‘rivers in the wilderness and streams in the desert.’. So I take this particular metaphorical representation of the central truth to indicate that an essential element of human nature is a longing for the Divine, as heat and weariness thirst for cool water: a sense of a higher law, a holier will, to which it would be peace and happiness to conform: a desire to find, amid the perplexity of things, a hand of guidance, and in their mutability and sorrowfulness a heart on which to rest: a yearning after something fixed and changeless, to set against the daily experience of loss and decay and death. She was afraid to hope that she could be received again to His pure and perfect love, and it took some months ere the equilibrium of her peace could be restored, and her heart could yet again be wholly set upon her Lord. This will be seen by observing--. By a series of marvellous steps the mightiest military genres of modern days reached the cold and tottering summit of imperial power. But we must leave this worker, and make our way to another who is hewing out the cistern of intellectualism. III. IV. No sooner do we reach him than he begins to pour out his contempt of the man we have just left. I should have been wise. Keble, Sermons on Various Occasions, p. 384. How wretched is thy condition, and how great is thy folly in thus wearying thyself without any advantage!”. Great rivers were, in the poetry of the prophets, the natural symbols of the kingdoms through which they flowed. God makes it an aggravation of the sin of his being forsaken that He is forsaken for that which must demand toil, and then yield disappointment. “If any man thirst let him come unto Me and drink.” (R. F. Herren, D. D.), True happiness to be found not in the world, but in God. I am bewildered, helpless, undone. For some years that holy woman had walked in constant fellowship with Christ; perhaps none ever saw the Saviour’s face, and kissed His wounds more truly than she had done. --- Hence the people adored it. ", [Note: W. H. Thomson, The Land and the Book, 1:443. They might either think about God or not, either love Him or not, either trust in Him or not, either do His will or not, either seek their happiness in God or not; and how did they act? He is incurable, and I would fain believe, insane, He has the fancy, that man is nothing but intellect, and that our whole mission in this world is to acquire knowledge. We now perceive what the Prophet meant, — that we cannot possibly be free from guilt when we leave the only true God, as in him is found for us a fullness of all blessings, and from him we may draw what may fully satisfy us. So, in general, all earthly, compared with heavenly, means of satisfying man's highest desires (Isaiah 55:1-2 : cf. In 625 BC, the seventeenth year of Josiah, and the fourth of Jeremiah's office, the kingdom of Assyria fell before Babylon, therefore Assyria is here put for Babylon, its successor: so in 2 Kings 23:29; Lamentations 5:6. H. from Eusebius, "Geon is a river, which with the Egyptians is called Nile.'. Menahem in Israel, Ahaz in Judah, had courted Assyria (2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 16:7-8); Hezekiah, Babylon (Isaiah 39); Hoshea had sought help from Egypt (2 Kings 17:4). A sinner’s state is appalling. Sin is an ungrateful rejection of God. I. The second evil is attempting to find a substitute for God. Christians delight not in godless company. The vultures sniff the prey from far-off desert wilds; they fly, keen of scent. II. From Him is ever issuing a stream bearing upon its bosom the richest spiritual blessings His mercy can provide. We would be strongly tempted to call in question his sanity. What business have you going down to Egypt for help? What have you to do with peace--a condemned man dancing in his cell at Newgate with chains about his wrists? They are attacking one man. 3. Israel had been carried into captivity as a consequence of their sin and apostasy, and the people are encouraged by Jeremiah to prepare for a prolonged sojourn in Babylon. some likeness; for the superstitious think that they labor not in vain, when they worship false gods, and they hope to derive some benefit. Such, and no better, are all idols, human helps, creature comforts, friends, means, merits, &c.; what are they all but cisterns, that hold but muddy rainwater at best? I have been blind, and negligent, and heedless in the extreme. - The Euphrates, as נהר nahar or הנהר hannahar always means Euphrates, the country between the Tigris and Euphrates, is termed to this day Maher alnahar, "the country beyond the river," i.e., Mesopotamia. 3. (Vitruvius viii.) I. Will it hold any water? is the Nile, so called because of its black and turbid waters. "The best cisterns, even those in solid rock, are strangely liable to crack, and are a most unreliable source of supply of that absolutely indispensable article, water; and if, by constant care, they are made to hold, yet the water, collected from clay roofs or from marly soil, has the color of weak soapsuds, the taste of the earth or the stable, is full of worms, and in the hour of greatest need it utterly fails. The contrast of the empty cisterns. 2. II. To drink the waters of Sihor,] i.e., Of Nile, called Sihor, of its blackness or muddiness; (a) and in Greek, Mελας, black. 3. I cannot live long. Strong and glorious as the fabric was, God could not be outwitted; His decree went forth against the cistern, by His iron rod it was broken into a thousand shivers, and the exile of St. Helena sat himself down for weary months and years in the chill shadow of his own “broken cistern which could hold no water,” till his own heart broke, and he passed away, to render his account unto God. E. Mellor, The Hem of Christ's Garment, p. 236. "Return, O backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings." This is exactly what those thoughts and feelings and pleasures are which come straight from God Himself. They are also insipid and unsatisfying; like water in a cistern, stagnated and exposed to the sun; whereby it not only loses its quick taste and freshness, but contracts scum and dirt and foulness. He is the Fountain of living waters. It was the constant rolling of a stone that was always to be lifted anew.” Who shall record the disappointment of those who seek wealth as their portion? Ah, how true this is of us, who have sought help and satisfaction in money, pleasure, human love, neglecting the offers of the Son of God!’. The same thing does Jeremiah now reprove in the people of Israel. Addressing myself to the Christian, I shall use the text in three senses, while I expostulate with you in regard to sin, to worldly pleasure, and to carnal trust. For what shall endure the severity of God’s scrutiny, but that which is itself of God’s appointing and providing (H. Melvill, B. D.). To drink the waters: here, and by the same words before, is meant, to seek help from either place, noting their strength, Isaiah 8:6. Freely offered. To drink the waters of Sihor? II. It is an exchanging of a fountain for many cisterns. 1 This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets and all the other people Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. idols, which are empty, vain things, that never answer expectation; or the Assyrians and Egyptians, as Jeremiah 2:18, which proved but broken reeds, and as all other supports or props, friends, traditions, merits, &c. are that are trusted to besides God; they are but cisterns at the best, whose water will putrify, or broken, riven vessels, through which they will soak, and leave nothing but mud and dirt behind them. And again, "Turn, O backsliding children, says the Lord, for I am married unto you." Nothing avails to change me—nothing within myself, I mean—in my fatal course. It is right to seek for happiness. II. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. God’s remedy for man’s sin. 2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 16:7; 2 Kings 17:3; Hosea 5:13; Hosea 7:11; Hosea 8:9). As in other parts of Scripture the Euphrates is no doubt meant by the river, though here, as in Psalms 80:11, and Isaiah 7:20, the article ה is not prefixed to it. Cloud she found her usual joy was departed; she had lost her power in prayer. He applies the epithet “living” to the waters that issue forth from Him. And yet he has told how at that time his deep dissatisfaction and misery were such that he was constantly contemplating suicide. pricked with the ox goad, and yet kicking against the pricks! God sets Himself forth as “the fountain of living waters.” His estimate of Himself is high, but not too high. This it is to forsake the solemn worship of Jehovah for the wild dance of the devotees of Baal. Luke 12:33). I. (W. A. This has’ become almost the universal passion of civilised man. Below are the two links which are updated with new articles and new verse by verse commentaries: A. ), Jeremiah was the medium rather than the source of these words; and it is noteworthy that he does not lay claim to them. The Prophet had said, “Go to the farthest lands, and see whether any nation has changed its gods, while yet they are mere inventions.” I think then the subject is closed with the exclamation in the preceding verse, when the Prophet says, “Be astonished, ye heavens.” It then follows, “Surely, two evils have my people done,” even these, — “they have forsaken me,” — and then, “they sought for themselves false gods.” When any one forsakes an old friend and connects himself with a new one, it is an iniquitous and a base conduct: but when there is no compensation, there is in it united together, folly, levity, and madness. Nor must we bluntly deny all that he has said in praise of wealth. Jeremiah 2:13 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. In drinking of “the fountain” you will have to stoop much, to kneel long, and to lie low. It proposes to make a framework of society in some future day complete and satisfying, but meanwhile it has no message to the millions of human souls that are passing, as it were, in a dull, dead flood, week by week, day by day, into the silent grave. Deal with them as we may, they leave us unsatisfied. Cisterns man makes. 1. That cistern is so well constructed, and is so attractive, that I would be the last to deny that waters of a satisfying kind might for a time be stored within it. Revised Edition. Christian, what hast thou to do with sin? The pagan are guilty of but one sin - idolatry; the covenant-people commit two - they abandon the true God; they serve idols. And be not affrighted at the signs of Heaven, because the heathen are affrighted at them; What men leave. The cistern of Morality. Cisterns — Either their idols, which are empty vain things, that never answer expectation, or the Assyrians, and Egyptians. Count Leo Tolstoi has told us himself how in his youth he was a nobleman with every advantage of wealth and education and social position, and, moreover, he was a man in perfect health, and there seemed to be not a cloud to cross his sky. If secularism could give us, as we wish, a more equal distribution of opportunities, and if every man had all that the world could offer, every man would still remain unsatisfied. Nevertheless, can it be said that men in general are ready to close with the Gospel, to partake of it as the parched traveller of the spring found amid the sands? The Septuagint identify it with Gihon, one of the rivers of Paradise. The grand idea which they suggest is--that God alone can satisfy individuals and communities. It is hard for thee! The Lord hath said it--“Cursed is he that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm,” but “blessed is he that trusteth in the Lord.” Yet Christians often do trust in man, and then our text comes home--“What hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the water of that muddy river?” “Some trust in horses and some in chariots, but we will stay ourselves upon the Lord God of Israel.”. The question then cannot be answered, because when a Christian goes into sin he commits all inconsistent act--inconsistent with the freedom which Christ has bought for him, and inconsistent with the nature which the Holy Spirit has implanted in him. The true way to get is to take. The most reliable source of water in Israel was a natural spring, and the least reliable was a cistern. I. Instead of seeking their happiness in God, they began to seek it in other objects. Cron.). You cannot scold a man out of any sin, still less out of the sin of covetousness. It is so unreasonable.—There is an element of thoughtlessness in all sin. In Jeremiah"s day there was a Proverbs -Egyptian party and a Proverbs -Assyrian party. You may get it by becoming a vestryman, an alderman, a popular novelist, a member of Parliament, a Cabinet minister, or a hundred other ways, but the end will be the same dissatisfaction and unrest which overwhelmed the great Napoleon. We cannot forsake God without forsaking our own mercies. 91. And ye who are setting up idols for yourselves, ye who, in spite of every demonstration of the uselessness of the endeavour, are striving to be happy without God, we will not reason with you: it were like passing too slight censure on your sin, it were representing it as less blinding, less besotting, than it actually is, to suppose that you would attend to, or feel the force of, an ordinary remonstrance. Compare Jeremiah 2:36. 2. II. His neighbour had let some of his cattle stray into the field; he asked him to fetch them out again and mend the fence; his neighbour would not, and he flew into such a passion with him that afterwards he sat down and cried. . O dove, what hath brought thee there in dangerous connection with thy fierce enemies? It is better and safer to ride alone than to have a thief’s company; and such is a wicked man, who will rob thee of precious time, if he do thee no more mischief. I. whereby they are rendered quite cold, lukewarm, and indifferent, in the things which concern their eternal salvation. The idols and nations, to which they have had recourse, injure them. The first evil is desertion of God. Let us see the difference between the fountain and the cisterns. It is criminal to forsake God; and, as we would expect, it is as injurious as it is criminal. He will demand of you why his passions were lodged in his heart, if they were not to govern him. If I despise what I know to be profitable to me, and embrace what I understand will be to my hurt, does not such a choice prove madness? No. And it seemed to me that this was not so much a cistern which is offered, or even a broken cistern, but a dull, flat pool, a mere stagnant pond where men can never quench their thirst, but where they can be and must be poisoned by the malaria that rises from the stagnant waters. Jeremiah 21:12 - O house of David, thus says the Lord : 'Administer justice every morning; And deliver the person who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor, That My wrath may not go forth like fire And burn with none to extinguish it, Because of the evil of their deeds. 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