Thus says Yahweh, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
⛓ Read Jeremiah 6 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.
'ask for the old paths... and you will find rest for your souls' is verbatim behind 'you will find rest for your souls' (Mt 11:29); Jesus offers the rest Jeremiah's generation refused.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Stand at the crossroads and ask for the ancient paths' — the discipled scribe honoring the old alongside the new; faint thematic link of valuing inherited wisdom.
Low confidence