15A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
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Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
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.
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-16)These seem to be the words of the spouse, the church, in answer to the commendations which Christ, the bridegroom, had given of her as a pleasant fruitful garden. Isa. she a garden? I. She owns her dependence upon Christ himself to make this garden fruitful. To him she has an eye (Song 4:15) as the fountain of gardens , not only the founder of them, by whom they are planted and to whom they owe th…
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