Text: Jeremiah 12:4
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 32:20
Subject: reversal—he will not see
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Both texts use the language of "seeing" the end (אַחֲרִית, acharit) in the context of a faithless generation. In Deuteronomy 32:20, God declares He will "see what will be their end" (אֶרְאֶה מָה אַחֲרִיתָם, er'eh mah acharitam) concerning "children of unfaithfulness," while in Jeremiah 12:4 the wicked taunt "He cannot see what our end will be" — a defiant inversion of the Deuteronomic warning. The Song of Moses warned that Israel's faithlessness would provoke God to hide His face; Jeremiah portrays the wicked as presuming upon that hidden face, boldly claiming God is blind to their outcome. This reversal transforms the covenant warning into a lived reality, with the land itself mourning as a consequence of the unfaithfulness that Deuteronomy 32 predicted.