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Jeremiah 51:7

The New Testament’s use of Jeremiah

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

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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.

Rev 17:1–6

'Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine, therefore the nations are mad' — direct verbal-conceptual template for the golden cup in her hand and the nations made drunk with the wine of her fornication. Hays: volume (golden cup + drunkenness + nations), distinctiveness. LXX Jer 28:7.

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Rev 18:1-3

'Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations have drunk of her wine, therefore the nations are mad' (LXX Jer 28:7). Direct source for 'all the nations have drunk of the wine of... her' — the intoxication-of-nations motif. Strong verbal and thematic volume.

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Elsewhere in Jeremiah 51
Jeremiah 51:6 2Jeremiah 51:13 2Jeremiah 51:63-64 2