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.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Car mon peuple a commis un double péché: Ils m'ont abandonné, moi qui suis une source d'eau vive, Pour se creuser des citernes, des citernes crevassées, Qui ne retiennent pas l'eau.
KJV
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.
Rufinus Aquileiensis
Commentarium In Oseam
alium prophetam signasse : id est, quod reliquerim Deum fontem aqua; vivae, et lacus sibi contritos (Jer. 2. 13.), vi (??)cet idola, fabricarint, ex quibus nullum possint sentire refrigerium. Sed quo- niam opi ma est exponendi regula, quae de consequen- tia· lectionis assumitur,…
Epiphanius
Ancoratus
10, 17 — 10 Luk. 6, 46 — 16 Hebr. 1, 3 — 17 Kol. 1, 15 — Luk. 1, 33 — 18 Act. 10, 42 u. a. St. — 10 Jer. 2, 13 — 21 Psal. 45, 5 — 22 Joh. 7, 38 — 25 Jes. 9, 6 L J 14 — S. 28, 21 Timotlieus Aelurus Widerlegung der chalcedonensisclien Lehre S. 17 Karapet = Siegel des Glaubens S. 26…
Origen
Fragmenta In Lamentationes (In Catenis de Prophetis)
ύσης τὴν κεφαλὴν κατὰ τὸ » σὺ κύριε , ἀντιλήπτωρ μου εἶ, δόξα μου καὶ ὑψῶν τὴν κεφαλήν μου«. Klagel. Jerem. 2, 13. Τὴν παντελῆ κακίαν ἐδήλωσεν, ὡς μηδεμίαν ἔχειν ἀρετῆς μαρτυρίαν μηδὲ τὸν πλημμελήσαντα παραπλήσια. τί γὰρ ὅμοιον ἁμάρτημα τοῦ μακρὰν τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ μετὰ τὸ πλησιάζειν…
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