Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 10 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'the Gentiles who don't know God' verbally matches Jeremiah's 'the nations that do not know you,' a stock LXX characterization of pagans as ignorant of the true God. Paul applies the same idiom to ground sexual ethics in covenantal knowledge of God.
High confidence'Giving vengeance to those who don't know God' echoes Jeremiah's prayer that God pour out his wrath on the nations that know him not and on the peoples that do not call on his name. Paul takes up this categorization of the godless as those who 'do not know God' as the object of eschatological vengeance. Closely paralleled by Psalm 79:6.
High confidence