James Trimm’s Nazarene Commentary on Jeremiah Chapter 2

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.
(Jer. 2:13 HRV)

Rashi writes of this verse:

two evils: Had they exchanged their Deity [lit. their fear] for one His equal, it would be one evil, and now that they have forsaken Me, that I am a spring of living waters, to follow idols, which are like cisterns of stored up water, and they are broken and cracked, and their water is absorbed in their cracks, these are two evils.

Rabbi Tzivi Nasi, a 19th Century Orthodox Rabbi who became a believer in Yeshua as Messiah, wrote of this verse:

…the children of Israel lost the right and Scriptural knowledge of God, which only a very few retained. As early as the second century of the Christian era, those few had died out. In the rabbinic writings of the subsequent five or six centuries, we find only extracts from the teaching of their ancient masters, and this oftentimes darkened with interpolations. What God said through His prophet Jeremiah (2:13), has not ceased sounding forth: “My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me the Fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, which can hold no water.” (The Great Mystery; How Can Three Be One? 1:2)