How to read this page

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

Graph View — tap the constellation icon in the top bar to see this page's connections as a web of light: gold points are passages, and the coloured threads are the connection types. Click any type in the graph's own legend to filter it in or out, and use the expand control for the full-screen night sky.

New to a term? The Glossary explains every abbreviation and term on the site in plain words.

Intertextuality Pair

Lamentations 3:48-49 → Jeremiah 14:17

Allusion

Later text

Lamentations 3:48-49BSB

Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people. My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,

Earlier text

Jeremiah 14:17BSB

You are to speak this word to them: 'My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

Significance

Both Lamentations 3:48-49 and Jeremiah 14:17 use virtually identical language of overflowing tears for the בַּת־עַמִּי (bat-ammi, "daughter of my people"). Jeremiah 14:17 describes eyes flowing with tears "day and night" that "do not cease" over the "virgin daughter of my people" who has been "shattered by a crushing blow." Lamentations 3:48-49 echoes this with "streams of tears flow from my eyes" that "overflow unceasingly, without relief." The shared vocabulary of unceasing weeping and the identical phrase "daughter of my people" strongly suggests the Lamentations poet is consciously adopting Jeremiah's prophetic lament posture, confirming the fulfillment of the very disaster Jeremiah foresaw.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy — the Lamentations poet weeps in Jeremiah's own idiom: unceasing tears for "the daughter of my people" reproduce the prophet's commanded lament (Jer 14:17), the poet standing where Jeremiah stood now that the foreseen shattering has come