Neither do they say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
⛓ Read Jeremiah 5 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.
'Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives rain, both the early and the latter, in its season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of the harvest' is the closest prophetic parallel to v17's rains and 'fruitful seasons.' Volume high (rain in season + fixed harvest seasons); Thematic Coherence strong (creation's seasons as a witness summoning to fear/turn to God).
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Let us fear the LORD… who gives the rain in its season, the autumn and the spring rains' supplies a further early/late-rain antecedent.
Medium confidenceGod gives the rains in season for all; coheres with rain on just and unjust as common grace.
Low confidence