But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 11 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Paul says God 'tests our hearts' (dokimazonti tas kardias), nearly verbatim the LXX language of Jeremiah's confessions where the Lord 'tests the hearts and reins' (dokimazon kardias kai nephrous). The forensic image of God assaying the inner person to validate the prophet's integrity is the controlling thought of vv. 3-4. High volume and coherence: Paul casts apostolic ministry in the mold of the persecuted-but-vindicated prophet.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind' is another heart-testing formula in the same cluster as 17:10; it reinforces the divine-omniscience background without distinct verbal contact of its own. Listed as a corroborating faint echo.
Low confidence