Isa 55:2, Jer 2:13 | JFB | STEP | 2. not bread — ( ). "Bread of deceit" ( ). Contrast this with the "bread of life" ( ; also ). satisfieth not — ( ). hearken . . . and eat —When two imperatives are joined, the second expresses the consequence of obeying the command in the first ( ). By hearkening ye shall eat. So in , "buy and eat." By buying, and so making it your own, ye shall eat, that is, experimentally enjoy it ( ). Compare the invitation ( ). fatness

Isaiah 55:2

2. not bread— (Hab 2:13). "Bread of deceit" (Pr 20:17). Contrast this with the "bread of life" (Joh 6:32, 35; also Lu 14:16-20).

satisfieth not— (Ec 1:8; 4:8).

hearken . . . and eat—When two imperatives are joined, the second expresses the consequence of obeying the command in the first (Ge 42:18). By hearkening ye shall eat. So in Isa 55:1, "buy and eat." By buying, and so making it your own, ye shall eat, that is, experimentally enjoy it (Joh 6:53). Compare the invitation (Pr 9:5, 6; Mt 22:4).

fatness— (Ps 36:8; 63:5).

Jeremiah 2:13

13. 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 heathen, though having the sin of idolatry, are free from the further sin of changing the true God for idols (Jer 2:11).

forsaken me—The Hebrew collocation brings out the only living God into more prominent contrast with idol nonentities. "Me they have forsaken, the Fountain," &c. (Jer 17:13; Ps 36:9; Joh 4:14).

broken cisterns—tanks for rain water, common in the East, where wells are scarce. The tanks not only cannot give forth an ever-flowing fresh supply as fountains can, but cannot even retain the water poured into them; the stonework within being broken, the earth drinks up the collected water. So, in general, all earthly, compared with heavenly, means of satisfying man's highest wants (Isa 55:1, 2; compare Lu 12:33).