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Allusion
Later text
I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them. I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me. Yes, I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.
Earlier text
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
From a prison courtyard in besieged Jerusalem, Jeremiah's new-covenant oracle (32:36-44) takes up the Shema's own vocabulary and turns the covenant's central demand into a covenant promise. The Shema confesses "the LORD is one" (YHWH ʾeḥād, Deut 6:4) and commands love "with all your heart and with all your soul" (bəkol ləbābəkā ûbəkol napšəkā, 6:5), with the surrounding chapter pressing Israel to fear the LORD (6:2, 13, 24). Jeremiah 32:39 deliberately reuses ʾeḥād: the God who is one now gives His people "one heart and one way (lēb ʾeḥād wəderek ʾeḥād), so that they will always fear Me" — and 32:40 internalizes it, "I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me." The reversal is sealed in 32:41, where Yahweh pledges to do them good "with all My heart and with all My soul" (bəkol-libbî ûbəkol-napšî) — the Shema's "with all your..." demand on Israel now spoken by God of Himself. This is Promise-Fulfillment, not typology: there is no type-antitype figure here, but a verbal-conceptual reuse in which the new-covenant oracle pledges to create the whole-hearted, single-hearted, God-fearing devotion the Shema could only require — the same trajectory Moses already opened (Deut 30:6) and Jeremiah and Ezekiel extend (Jer 4:4; 31:33; Ezek 36:26), hence also a Longitudinal Theme of the new-covenant heart. The Shema's unanswered problem — a divided heart that cannot keep "love the LORD with all" — meets here its divine solution: God Himself supplies the undivided heart and the fear that lasts forever. And the telos is sheer gladness, for the Giver Himself rejoices: "I will rejoice in doing them good" (32:41). The oneness of God becomes the joy of a people made one in heart toward Him — fulfilled in Christ, who alone loved the Father with all His heart and soul, and by His Spirit writes that single-hearted, joyful fear of God on His own, so that the Shema is heard at last not as crushing law but as the promise of a heart remade to delight in the one God as its supreme treasure.