Water means life in the Bible, the life only God can give. It also means washing from sin, which is why Christians baptize with it, and the gift of the Holy Spirit, whom Jesus called living water. Deep water and the flood mean the opposite, danger and death, and Scripture shows God ruling over them. Most of those meanings meet in one complaint God makes through Jeremiah. He speaks of his people with grief: “they have forsaken me the fountain…

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