The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
⛓ 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.
Jeremiah's lament that 'the prophets prophesy falsely... and my people love to have it so' parallels the hearers who heap up teachers to suit their own desires. The collusion between corrupt teachers and a people who prefer to be flattered underlies Paul's warning about itching ears.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The prophets prophesy falsely... and my people love it so' grounds 'their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets' — popular acclaim is the mark of the false prophet. Coherent with the deuteronomistic false-prophet tradition (cf. Micaiah, 1 Kings 22).
Medium confidence