Text: Jeremiah 10:23
OT Text Referred to: Psalm 79:6
Subject: imprecatory prayer for divine wrath on hostile nations
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
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.
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Text: Psalms 79:6-7
OT Text Referred to: Jeremiah 10:25
Subject: National judgment
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Jeremiah 10:25 is a near-verbatim quotation of Psalm 79:6-7: "Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the peoples that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and devastated his homeland." The identical Hebrew phrasing — שְׁפֹךְ חֲמָתְךָ (shefokh chamatekha, "pour out Your wrath") — in both texts indicates that Jeremiah deliberately adopted the psalm's imprecatory language. The prophet appropriates the communal lament of Psalm 79 (written during or after Jerusalem's destruction) as his own prayer during the Babylonian threat, demonstrating how Israel's liturgical tradition provided language for prophetic intercession in analogous historical crises.