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Jeremiah 12:7

The New Testament’s use of Jeremiah

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

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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.

Luke 13:34-35

'I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my heritage' gives the divine-abandonment sense of 'your house is left to you,' God withdrawing from the temple. High Volume in the forsaken-house motif and strong Coherence with impending desolation.

High confidence
Matt 23:37-39

"I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my heritage" supplies the abandonment/desolation of the house in v38.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Jeremiah 12
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