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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 22:27

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 22:27BSB

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

Significance

Deuteronomy 22:27 exonerates the overpowered woman because "the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her," while Jeremiah 20:8 similarly describes the prophet's involuntary cry: "whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction." Both texts feature an outcry (צָעַק / זָעַק, tsa'aq / za'aq) that arises from compulsion rather than choice. The parallel suggests that Jeremiah's prophetic proclamation functions like the victim's cry — evidence of resistance to an overwhelming force, not willing participation. Jeremiah's lament in 20:7-9 portrays the prophetic office as an irresistible divine imposition, with the prophet's continual crying out serving as testimony that he did not choose this message of doom.

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy — as the law exonerates the woman whose outcry proved her resistance (Deut 22:27), so Jeremiah's continual crying out (Jer 20:8) testifies that his message of "violence and destruction" is compelled, not chosen; the shared pattern of outcry-under-compulsion is an analogical correspondence between legal category and prophetic experience.