Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 17 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.
Those who forsake the LORD have forsaken 'the fountain of living waters'; the doubled Jeremianic phrase raises Recurrence and makes the divine self-identification as living-water source the most likely source-pool for v10-14.
High confidenceA second Jeremianic occurrence — 'O LORD, the hope of Israel' — reinforces the title behind Paul's claim; recurrence of the phrase across Jeremiah strengthens the allusion.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Jesus' twice-noted writing on the ground may evoke 'those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.' Coherence with John's living-water theme is suggestive, but the gesture is unexplained in the text and the link remains a classic patristic conjecture.
Low confidence