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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Jeremiah 10:23 → Psalm 79:6

Allusion

Later text

Jeremiah 10:23BSB

I know, O LORD, that a man's way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.

Earlier text

Psalm 79:6BSB

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

Significance

Jeremiah 10:25 quotes Psalm 79:6-7 almost verbatim: "Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You" (שְׁפֹךְ חֲמָתְךָ עַל־הַגּוֹיִם אֲשֶׁר לֹא יְדָעוּךָ, shefokh chamatka al-hagoyim asher lo yeda'ukha). Both passages pair this plea with the charge that hostile nations "have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland." The psalm arises from the context of Jerusalem's destruction, while Jeremiah applies the same imprecatory language to the approaching Babylonian invasion. By citing the psalmic plea, Jeremiah grounds his prophetic prayer in Israel's established worship tradition, appealing to God's covenant obligation to defend His people against those who do not call on His name.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy — Jeremiah 10:25 takes up the psalm's imprecatory plea in an analogous covenant crisis: as the psalmist prayed "Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You" over Jerusalem's devastation, so Jeremiah prays the same liturgical prayer against the nations now closing in on Judah — the same divine justice invoked in a parallel situation, not a promise fulfilled or a type escalated.