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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 20:7 → Deuteronomy 22:27

Echo

Later text

Jeremiah 20:7BSB

You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 22:27BSB

When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.

Significance

Deuteronomy 22:27 describes the assaulted betrothed woman who "cried out, but there was no one to save her" (צָעֲקָה... וְאֵין מוֹשִׁיעַ לָהּ, tsa'aqah... ve'ein moshia lah), while Jeremiah 20:7-8 describes the prophet who was "overcome" by God and who "cries out" (אֶזְעָק, ez'aq) whenever he speaks. The parallel of compulsion and crying out links Jeremiah's prophetic anguish to the legal category of the innocent victim who resists but is overpowered. Jeremiah's crying out is twofold: he cries out in proclamation (proclaiming "violence and destruction"), yet like the woman in the field, his outcry signals involuntary subjection rather than willing participation. The echo suggests Jeremiah sees himself as a victim of divine compulsion, not a willing collaborator in the message of doom.

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy — the case law's outcry clause (the betrothed woman "cried out, but there was no one to save her," Deut 22:27) supplies the analogy for Jeremiah's compelled cry (אֶזְעָק, Jer 20:8) under a divine force he could not resist; the prophet casts himself as the law's innocent, overpowered victim — analogical use of a legal category to voice prophetic anguish.