the nations cannot move the city that possesses this living water. Jeremiah, who lived a century later than Isaiah, makes good use of this “living” stream in a telling parable (Jer. 2:13), comparing God to its fountain of living waters. He makes wars to cease, verses 8–10. See then how the living God does what a real King should do. This is what the king on the throne in Jerusalem should do also. Not make war, but make wars to cease. Yet, to do so, in the end God must surely cause great convulsions