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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Jeremiah 10:23-25 → Psalm 79:6-7

Quotation

Later text

Jeremiah 10:23-25BSB

I know, O LORD, that a man's way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps. Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing. Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.

Earlier text

Psalm 79:6-7BSB

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name, for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

Significance

Jeremiah 10:25 directly quotes Psalm 79:6-7, reproducing the psalmist's imprecatory plea nearly verbatim: "Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You... for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland" (שְׁפֹךְ חֲמָתְךָ עַל־הַגּוֹיִם, shefokh chamatka al-hagoyim). The psalm laments the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, while Jeremiah reuses the identical language to plead against the nations threatening Judah before that destruction is complete. This direct quotation grounds Jeremiah's prophetic prayer in Israel's liturgical tradition, transforming a psalm of communal lament into a prophetic intercessory plea. The shared charge "they have devoured Jacob" (in Jeremiah's wording אָכְלוּ אֶת־יַעֲקֹב, akhelu et-Ya'aqov; the psalm's verb is singular אָכַל) binds the two texts as expressions of covenant solidarity before God.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Analogy — Jeremiah 10:25 prays Psalm 79:6-7 nearly verbatim in an analogous crisis: the psalm's plea over a devastated Jerusalem becomes the prophet's plea as Babylon approaches, the same covenant appeal ("they have devoured Jacob") applied to a parallel moment of national peril; the correspondence is situational reuse of Israel's liturgy, not fulfillment or typology.