Lexicon :: Strong's H4726 - māqôr

For with You is the fountain of life [the fountain of life-giving water];

In Your light we see light.

Bless God in the congregations, [give thanks, gratefully praise Him],

The LORD, you who are from [Jacob] the fountain of Israel.

Let your fountain (wife) be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity],

And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life and his words of wisdom are a source of blessing,

But the mouth of the wicked conceals violence and evil.

The teaching of the wise is a fountain and source of life,

So that one may avoid the snares of death.

The [reverent] fear of the LORD [that leads to obedience and worship] is a fountain of life,

So that one may avoid the snares of death.

Understanding (spiritual insight) is a [refreshing and boundless] wellspring of life to those who have it,

But to give instruction and correction to fools is foolishness.

The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters [copious and difficult to fathom];

The fountain of [mature, godly] wisdom is like a bubbling stream [sparkling, fresh, pure, and life-giving].

Like a muddied fountain and a polluted spring

Is a righteous man who yields and compromises his integrity before the wicked.

“For My people have committed two evils:

They have abandoned (rejected) Me,

The fountain of living water,

And they have carved out their own cisterns,

Broken cisterns

That cannot hold water.

Oh that my head were waters

And my eyes a fountain of tears,

That I might weep day and night

For the slain of the daughter of my people!

O LORD, the hope of Israel,

All who abandon You will be shamed.

Those who turn away on earth will be written down,

Because they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

Therefore thus says the LORD,

“Behold, I will plead your case

And take full vengeance for you;

I will dry up her sea and great reservoir

And make her fountain dry.

For though he flourishes among the reeds (his fellow tribes),

An east wind (Assyria) will come,

The breath of the LORD rising from the desert;

And Ephraim’s spring will become dry

And his fountain will be dried up.

Assyria will plunder his treasury of every precious object.

“In that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the people of Jerusalem for [cleansing from] sin and impurity.