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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 20:8 → Deuteronomy 22:25

Echo

Later text

Jeremiah 20:8BSB

For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 22:25BSB

But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.

Significance

Jeremiah 20:8 describes the prophet's experience of being compelled to cry out — "whenever I speak, I cry out" (אֶזְעָק, ez'aq) — using vocabulary that resonates with Deuteronomy 22:25, where a man "overpowers" (חָזַק, chazaq) a woman. The shared semantic field of compulsion and outcry links Jeremiah's involuntary proclamation to the legal framework of the innocent victim. The word of the LORD has become "a reproach and derision all day long" (v. 8), yet Jeremiah cannot stop speaking it — a compulsion described in v. 9 as "a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones." The Deuteronomic framework establishes that one seized by overwhelming force bears no guilt, implicitly defending Jeremiah's legitimacy as a prophet despite the hostile reception of his message.

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy — Jeremiah's involuntary proclamation ("whenever I speak, I cry out") is voiced through the legal frame of Deut 22:25, where the one "overpowered" (חָזַק) bears no guilt; the analogy defends the prophet's integrity — his hated message issues from divine compulsion, not personal choice — an analogical appeal to the case law's category of the innocent under force.